J'Accuse
Playing on Zola's famous letter denouncing the anti-Semitism of the French government throughout the Dreyfus affair, Aharon Shabtai's title can be taken literally: it charges his government and his people with crimes against the humanity of their neighbors. Here we find snipers shooting children, spin-masters trying to whitewash blood baths, ammunition distributed like bars of chocolate, and technicians of slaughter for whom morality is merely a pain in the ass.With a splendid lyrical physicality that accentuates Shabtai's terse immediacy and matter-of-fact scorn, the poems cover a period of six yearsfrom the 1996 election of Netanyahu as pri…
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Weitere Autoren: Cole, Peter (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1539-8
- EAN: 9780811215398
- Produktnummer: 9696439
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B13.4 cm x D0.8 cm 109 g
- Gewicht: 109
Über den Autor
Born in 1939 and educated on a kibbutz, and at the Hebrew University, the Sorbonne, and Cambridge, Aharon Shabtai is the author of sixteen books of poetry and the greatest contemporary translator into Hebrew of Greek drama.
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