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Yaakov Shabtai (1934–81) ((ヘブライ語:יעקב שבתאי)) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator. ==Biography== Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he joined Kibbutz Merhavia, but returned to Tel Aviv in 1967.〔(Shabtai, Yaakov – Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century ) ''Bookrags,'' accessed July 14, 2011〕 His best known work is ''Zikhron Devarim'' (1977), published in English in 1985 as ''Past Continuous''. Written as a single paragraph, it was the first novel ever to be written in truly vernacular Hebrew. In its English translation the novel received international acclaim as a unique work of modernism, prompting critic Gabriel Josipovici of The Independent to name it the greatest novel of the decade, comparing it to Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time''. In Israel, Shabtai is also known as a playwright, having written such classics of the Israeli stage as ''Crowned Head'' and ''The Spotted Tiger''. He also translated many plays into Hebrew, including works by Harold Pinter, Neil Simon, Noël Coward and Eugene O'Neill. Other works by Shabtai include ''Uncle Peretz Takes Off'', a collection of short stories, and ''Past Perfect'' (''Sof Davar''), a continuation of ''Past Continuous'' in terms of narrative and style, published posthumously. In 2006 a collection of early stories was published under the title ''A Circus in Tel Aviv''. Shabtai died of a heart attack in 1981. Shabtai's brother Aharon is a poet and a translator from Ancient Greek. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yaakov Shabtai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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