Dybbuk - Couverture souple

Ansky, Ansky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0871402629 ISBN 13 : 9780871402622

Editeur : W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1972

Synopsis

The Dybbuk, regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated audiences throughout the world. Based on Jewish folklore, its dark implications of mysterious, other-worldly forces at work in a quaint and simple village make for gripping, suspenseful theater. To the Chassidic Jews of eastern Europe, a dybbuk was not a legend or a myth; rather it remained a constant and portentous possibility. During that age of pervasive mysticism, when rabbis became miracle workers and the sinister arts of the Kabbala were fearsomely invoked, it was never doubted that a discontented spirit from the dead could cross the barrier between the "real" and the "other" worlds to enter a living human body. The Dybbuk is a masterful play, full of deep-rooted obsessions and dramatic suspense, fascinating for the glimpse it provides of the rich, poetic, and often tragic culture of the Chassidim. In this classic translation by Henry Alsberg and Winifred Katzin, the authentic cadences of the original Yiddish are deftly preserved.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871402629
• ISBN 13: 9780871402622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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