Life is the best of a bad lot reveals the comedy and tragedy of a current sensitive Jew in modern Israel, one who tries to avoid his nations horrific past and its stressful presence with creative, imaginative writing, which proves that art can elevate people from reality.
The stories can be about a new Age workshop, trying to make its participates suffer to appreciate the daily life, or one which was written about a young music producer trying to survive physically, psychologically and mystically when confrontations his childhood, or a story about the prime minister’s assassin who become the leader himself, and even perfectionist lobbyist who makes his small, non-risky illness to a fatal one. But all of these stories give a clear perspective on the human situation in Western civilization of the 21st century.
Life is the best of a bad lot is a humanistic document which exposes a different view of life as a writer born into a torn society, living an endless external, existential and inner conflicts.
Erez Majerantz is a writer and playwright. Majored in Philosophy and Comparative Literature At the Bar-Ilan University.
Four of his plays were Staged, ’'Shkembe’’ (2006) ‘’Reaction’’ and ‘’climbing vegetables'’ (2014) and ‘’Abutbul concern’’ (2016).
His stories have been published in various anthologies and literary magazines across the world.
Genre: FICTION / JewishIn Hebrew i have no data,
In English and German it was not published yet-
Archangel Robin
Since his death, Robin Hood has been living next door to Gabriel, Raphael and Michael. He spends his time in the Garden of Eden mostly by sitting on clouds and reading books full of post-structuralist theories. Every so often, he spares an indifferent glance to the world he used to live on, the world of the mortal people that has radically changed in appearance, but not one bit in essence.
While his neighbours constantly compete with the Seraphim on who can ease human suffering more, which only intensified in the centuries after his death, Robin refused to so much as venture an opinion on the state of mankind, required as it was of him in the Annual Angelic Assembly.
"How is it that one such as I came to be so exalted?" He asked himself, noting the number of praises he was awarded, not to mention the number of texts and films commemorating the days in which he and a number of his gang mates used to terrorise the rich, rob them clean and share some of the stolen money with the most wretched poor. But he had never been a righteous man, much less a handsome movie star like Kevin Costner or others who played the role of him.
For all these actions he alone has been given credit, and from the whole gang he alone became an angel, while his friends have been sent to burn in hell's thieves section.
From the day of his death, no terror or disaster that happened on earth had disturbed him, and none of the violence, depression, slavery, terrorism, war and oppression touched him. He would rather try and impress the female members of the heavenly host with tear-jerking poems and psychological amusements, as if he was still Robin, Prince of Loxley. But instead of poetry, he was now well versed in the current pseudo-intellectual fashion.
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French
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Translation in progress.
Translated by Patrick Mercier
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Virginia Castro
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