Satan in Goray - Couverture souple

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374524793 ISBN 13 : 9780374524791

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Singer Isaac Bashevis

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A gripping parable of reason versus revelation, hysteria in the face of apocalypse' Guardian

The pogrom that swept through Poland was interpreted as a sign of the Coming of the Lord. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief becomes joy as good news arrives of the second coming of the Messiah. Once the town's pious rabbi is usurped, the townspeople are free to look forward to the End of Days, when they will wear golden jackets and dine on marzipan candy. But such perilously high hopes pave the way to hysteria, and a panic which could threaten the very existence of Goray.

'Whatever religion his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality' Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books

See also: The Family Moskat

Biographie de l'auteur :

Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1904, in Poland, the son of a rabbi. Fleeing fascism in 1935, he emigrated to America, penniless and knowing little English. 'I think that the whole of human history is one big Holocaust,' he said in 1987, when asked why there was no direct mention of the Holocaust in his fiction. 'It is not only Jewish history. We can call human history the history of the human Holocaust'. Singer's fiction - novels such as The Family Moskat (1950) and The Magician of Lublin (1960), and story collections such as Gimpel the Fool (1957) and The Spinoza of Market Street (1961) - became admired internationally and he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1978. He died in 1998.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374524793
• ISBN 13: 9780374524791
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239