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Ebook - LEVI KOENIG: A Contemporary King Lear
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Book description : In Levi Koenig, A Contemporary King Lear, the author seeks to right a wrong. In Shakespeare’s play of the same name, King Lear’s two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are portrayed as wicked, conniving women, while the youngest, Cordelia, is goodness incarnate. In her novel, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson seeks to rectify this distorted view of family relations in general, and the part played by daughters in particular. In this version of what happens in a contemporary family when the elderly father finds himself in need of the help of his three daughters it seems that each sister is simply trying to do her best to care for her ailing father under difficult circumstances. The interaction between the members of the family is further complicated by the presence of their father’s Filipina helper, whose command of English is somewhat limited. The book explores the relations between the sisters, their attitude to their father, and the way in which each one of them strives to juggle home, family, work, and love-life while tending to her father’s needs. The relations within the family come under additional strain when it transpires that their father has been sending substantial amounts of money to an unknown woman abroad. The existence and nature of this relationship casts a shadow over what were formerly harmonious relations, and the sisters decide that they must take action to put a stop to their father’s generosity. The efforts made by the three sisters to care for their father begin to take a mercenary turn, revealing additional facets of their individual characters and causing anguish to their father. This in turn sets off a train of events with tragic consequences. The two younger sisters, Renata and Corinna, are married with children and struggle to stay on an even keel as they are buffeted by emotional storms – often of their own making. The oldest, more rational sister, Gloria, who is divorced, thinks that she may have found love at last, only to find herself tossed on the stormy sea of love and disappointment. Although it is set in contemporary Israel, the situation is one that is doubtless familiar to many people all over the world.
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