No more excuses – Helit Yeshurun has completed her translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu 1913 – 1927). The final volume, Le temps retrouvé (1927), published by “HaSifriya HaHadashah” (Hebrew: New Library) is now available in Hebrew – so readers of Hebrew can book a table at their favorite café for the next couple of months, and finally finish reading Proust (only to discover, of course, that one never finishes reading Proust).
But before you all sit down to read, the Meditech in Holon will celebrate the book’s launch with “Everything About Time”: a two day event with performances and discussions on the theme of Proust, Thursday, December 23 & Friday, December 24, 2010. Among the writers, scholars, musicians, and actors participating are: Helit Yeshurun, Menahem Peri, Avigdor Feldman, Shlomi Shaban, Haim Be’er, Yair Garbuz, Efrat Gosh, Rubik Rosental, Shimon Adaf, Rea Mochiach, Yaheli Sobol, Dror Keren, Miron Izakson, Oded Zehavi, Doron Tavory, and Eli Magen.
Highlights include “It’s Time to Talk About Time” a collaboration between writer Miron Izakson and composer Oded Zehavi, who set Izakson’s “Shirei Shaon veSha’a” to music. The event will take place on Thursday, December 23, at 19:30 at the HaKufsa Theatre, with Riki Blich, Amir Guttfreund, Alona Turel, Eli Magen and Doron Tavory.
At 21:30 on Thursday, a musical, cinematic journey through time in the Meditech Theatre with Efrat Gosh, Yaheli Sobol, Hemi Rodner, Efrat Ben-Zur and Assaf Roth performing songs old and new, from Israeli children’s favorites and nostalgic classics like Naomi Shemer’s The Eucalyptus Grove to their own originals.
Tickets range from 30 – 50 NIS, call for purchase and further details: 03-5021522.
