Asaf Schurr Motti (retail) (epub)

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.MOTTIOTHER WORKS INDALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS’SHEBREW LITERATURE SERIESDolly CityOrly Castel-BloomHeatwave and Crazy BirdsGabriela Avigur-RotemHomesickEshkol NevoLife on SandpaperYoram KaniukMOTTIa novel byASAF SCHURRTRANSLATED AND WITH ANAFTERWORD BY TODD HASAK-LOWYSeries Editor: Rachel S.HarrisDALKEY ARCHIVE PRESSCHAMPAIGN AND LONDONOriginally published in Hebrew as Motti by Babel, Tel Aviv, 2008Copyright © 2008 by Asaf SchurrEnglish translation © by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew LiteraturePublished by arrangement with the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew LiteratureAll rights reservedLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataShur, Asaf.[Moti.English]Motti: a novel / by Asaf Schurr; translated and with an afterword by Todd Hasak-Lowy.--1st ed.p.cm.ISBN: 978-1-56478-655-5I.Hasak-Lowy, Todd, 1969-II.Title.PJ5055.41.U733M6813 2011892.4’37--dc222011002839Partially funded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agencyThe Hebrew Literature Series is published in collaboration with the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New Yorkwww.dalkeyarchive.comTo good CookieAs you embark on a new pathMOTTIContentsFIRST OUTSIDEChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27SECOND IN BETWEENChapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31THIRD INSIDEChapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34Chapter 35Chapter 36Chapter 37Chapter 38Chapter 39Chapter 40Chapter 41Chapter 42Chapter 43Chapter 44Chapter 45Chapter 46Chapter 47Chapter 48Chapter 49Chapter 50Chapter 51Chapter 52Chapter 53Chapter 54Chapter 55Chapter 56Chapter 57FOURTH OUTSIDEChapter 58TRANSLATOR’S AFTERWORDHEBREW LITERATURE SERIESABOUT THE AUTHORStructurally, this book is strict.Strict and very simple.A symmetrical pyramid with a summit of clouds and a base of Euclidian geometry.Nevertheless, it’s a book, not a concert or some sort of performing art, I don’t get the chance to sit in the theater and offer suggestions during rehearsals.And there’s no division between the audience and the stage.You’re the performers and the audience all at once, and everything is already out of my control.Therefore I can only request that you read attentively, or at least not with complete indifference.Even with joy, perhaps, those paragraphs worthy of it.From my perspective it’s all the same now.At any rate, I do not know and will never know most of you, and if you die (even in the middle of a chapter) I’ll never know a thing about it.Yes, that’s how it is.In our own eyes we’re very important, but for almost everyone else our death won’t even warrant a few lines in the local paper.Think of all the people you pass on the street every week.Some of them have already died, and you didn’t even notice.And we will too, some day, and our absence won’t be felt by those who remain, walking the streets in the evening, out with the dog, or on the way to the trash with a big bag of garbage.And because of this the simplicity.Because of this.There are almost no games here, no deception, there is no deviousness at all in this book.No manipulation.Everything is simple as can be.Everything is on the table [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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