“Nevertheless, it is also true that the serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift his spirit, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants. “The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īwarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer accepted the prize by first giving a speech in Yiddish, the language of his writing, and then delivered the following remarks in English.
is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.” As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “The pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such mid-century classics as Rabbit, Run The Adventures of Augie March and The Moviegoer. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s-but first published in 1960-Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable.
Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape-from his wife and his homeland and the last tendrils of his father’s religion. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town.
Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic-a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from love
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