Volume 56, Number 14 · September 24, 2009
Israel: The Writers' Writer
By Avishai Margalit
Midnight Convoy and Other Stories
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish and others, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Toby Press, 283 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Preliminaries
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Toby Press, 305 pp., $24.95
Khirbet Khizeh
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck, with an afterword by David Shulman
Jerusalem: Ibis, 131 pp., $16.95 (paper)
A story used to circulate among members of the Russian intelligentsia: boxing contests in Hamburg, it was said, were rigged so that the popular boxers would win, thus pleasing the public. Yet the boxers were keen to know who the real champion was, and once a year they used to meet in a secret cellar for a serious match, to which only the professionals were invited. Similarly, in an avant-garde secret poetry contest, the story had it, Velimir Khlebnikov was the champion, not the more popular Vladimir Mayakovsky. He was the true choice of the poets: the poets' poet.
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