Yaʻakobi & Leidental

Hanoch Levin

1972

Scene Twelve

[Leidental’s room. Evening. Leidental. One of his fingers is bandaged.]

Leidental:

[To himself.] At eight fifteen I felt I cannot any more with myself. I had: regulation misery, pain to top the misery, sadness to top the pain, the humiliation that I humiliated myself with them, the humiliation that I would still humiliate myself with them…

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Hanoch Levin

1943–1999
Born and brought up in Tel Aviv, Hanoch Levin was a dramatist, director, writer, and poet. Levin was a major force in the Israeli theater and remained a controversial figure throughout his productive and tragically short career. He wrote more than sixty plays, as well as collections of poetry and prose, and two books for children. Many of his poems were set to music. In 1994, Levin received the Bialik Prize.

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