The Book of Pleasures

Amos Kenan

1975

Preventive Measures against Life

Most people are very wary of life, and try to avoid it. The conventional ways of doing this are many and varied:

Don’t drop bread on the floor!
Don’t waste electricity!
Work is what life is about!
All that glitters is not gold!

But not only proverbs serve as prophylactic measures against life. There are also more…

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Creator Bio

Amos Kenan

1927–2009
Born in Tel Aviv, author, playwright, and sculptor Amos Kenan joined the Leḥi underground and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. In the early 1950s, he wrote a satirical column for the newspaper Haaretz. He lived for a few years in Paris, later returning to Israel where he was a long-time columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aḥaronot. A peace activist, Kenan won the Brenner Prize for Literature in 2000.

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