Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Seeing through itching

A text I'm considering for next semester's course on Job and the arts is Hanoch Levin's Sorrows of Job (1981). Even in translation it sings/stings.
Later on it gets very very dark. Trans. Barbara Harshaw in Modern Israeli Drama in Translation, ed. Michael Taub (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993), 23