מה שחשבתי צל הוא הגוף האמיתי

by Shimon Adaf, שמעון אדף

"מה שחשבתי צל הוא הגוף האמיתי" הוא ספר השירה השני של שמעון אדף. ספרו הראשון, "המונולוג של איקרוס", ראה אור ב - 1997. לספר מצורף תקליטור הכולל שישה משירי הספר בגרסתם המוסיקלית.

76 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף) is one of the most vibrant, restless and stirring voices in contemporary Hebrew literature (both prose-fiction and poetry). He has so far written three poetry collections and eight books of prose fiction. For his first book of poems, Icarus' Monologue (1997), Adaf won the Israeli Ministry of Education Prize and parts of it have been included in the Israeli high school literature curriculum. For his fifth novel, Mox Nox (2011), Adaf won the prestigious Israeli Sapir Prize (2013) and his third novel, Sunburned Faces (2008), published in English by PS press (2013), appeared on The Guardian’s list of the best science fiction for 2013, alongside Stephen King and Margaret Atwood. He is currently the chair of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Reviews

[Noé Hernández · Rating 5 out of 5]

A contemporary manifesto of the non-Ashkenazic identity of Judaism. The effort of a mizrachi Jew who understands the problems of those who don't speak yiddish, a celebration of Ladino and Judeo-Arabic. His work helps to feel proud of the oxymoron of the heritage, Arab and Jewish, rich traditions which converge in an individual.

With deep roots in Biblical Hebrew, this contemporary work emulates a re-formulated Sefer Yetzirah, a compendium of maximum magic of the mystic experience, secular but religious. A game of opposites, an effort of renovation, Shimon Adaf knows how to create complex poems with no more than 10 stanzas.