Bøger af Isaac Bashevis Singer

An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .

This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer's fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse."

Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.

The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.

In Enemies, A Love Story - an ode to the complicated postwar experience of Holocaust survivors - Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of Herman Broder, a man lost in his own indecisiveness and dishonesty. Almost before he knows it, Herman has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis, Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love, and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. But the difficulty of navigating his crowded personal life, as well as the general ambiguous experience of Yiddish New York after WWII, leaves Herman with a sense of perpetually impending doom.Praise:"Isaac Bashevis Singer is both an oldΓÇÉfashioned storyteller and a modern psychological writer" - The New York Times"The hero of Enemies, A Love Story is a trigamist - a word one doesn''t get to use every day. Herman scuttles about New York with buoyant pessimism and fatalistic sweetness, trying to make his untenable life work. In his first novel set in America, Isaac Bashevis Singer works out this bizarre plot with perfect naturalness and aplomb . . . Enemies, A Love Story is a brilliant, unsettling novel." - Newsweek"It is a measure of Singer''s strength that he is able to utilize what is essentially a familiar farcical situation - a man married to three wives - to scour the empty room of one human soul pursued by the echoes of real and terrible enemies." - Kirkus Reviews

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work-including the literary arts, Yiddish and Jewish life, and mysticism and philosophy-the book illuminates in new ways the rich intellectual, aesthetic, religious, and biographical background of Singer's singular achievement as the first Yiddish-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Like a modern Montaigne, Singer studied human nature and created a body of work that contributed to a deeper understanding of the human spirit. Much of his philosophical thought was funneled into his stories. Yet these essays, which Singer himself translated into English or oversaw the translation of, present his ideas in a new way, as universal reflections on the role of the artist in modern society. The unpublished essays featured here include "e;Old Truths and New Cliches,"e; "e;The Kabbalah and Modern Times,"e; and "e;A Trip to the Circus."e;Old Truths and New Cliches brims with stunning archival finds that will make a significant impact on how readers understand Singer and his work. Singer's critical essays have long been overlooked because he has been thought of almost exclusively as a storyteller. This book offers an important correction to the record by further establishing Singer as a formidable intellectual.

It is Warsaw in the 1930s, the years of Hitler's rise to power. Aaron Greidinger, familiarly known as Tsutsik, and an aspiring young writer, struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with a chance of riches and a passport to America. Tsutsik finds himself emotionally involved with four women-Betty, who admires his talent; Celia, an older married woman he meets through Dr. Feitelzohn, a senior member of the Writers' Club; Tekla, a girl from the country who works as a maid in his new flat; and Dora the Marxist, an old flame with whom he is reconciled on the eve of her Soviet departure. "In all the novels I have read," Tsutsik tells himself, "the hero desires only one woman, but here I was lusting after the whole female gender." One spring day, walking with Betty through his old Krochmalna Street neighborhood, Tsutsik rediscovers his past-in the person of his childhood playmate, Shosha, still an innocent young woman. Tsutsik's and Shosha's subsequent fate and that of all of his friends, revealed in an epilogue in Israel, rounds off this wonderful saga of human unpredictability, self-deception, and humor in the midst of tragedy.One of Singer's most personal works, Shosha is an unforgettable novel about the conflicted desires, lost lives and the redemption of one man. "Isaac Bashevis Singer...celebrates the dignity, mystery, and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other writer alive," Peter R. Prescott stated in Newsweek when the novel was first published. "He is concerned with all the major themes, with good and evil, belief and doubt, action and contemplation, the nature of illusion and the joys of the flesh." With the publication of Shosha, the novelist confirmed his position as one of the major figures in Twentieth Century American Letters.

An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac.In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture. From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.

I en jødisk landsby i Polen i anden halvdel af 1600-tallet bliver tro, overtro, gudløshed og djævlebesættelse æltet sammen i en syndig forvirring, da en falsk Messias slår sig ned.Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991, amerikansk-jiddisch forfatter. Han fødtes i Polen, men udvandrede i 1935 til USA, og hans værker er nok bedst kendt på engelsk, selvom de blev skrevet på jiddisch først. I centrum for forfatterskabet står livet i jødiske landsbyer i Central- og Østeuropa før holocaust, fremskrevet i en realistisk stil med et islæt af mystik – en stil, der af flere bliver anset for både grotesk og obskøn. Persongalleriet udspringer af jødisk folklore og byder på alt fra synske personer, troldmænd, tåber, vise, ludere, bodfærdige, fanatikere til djævle, dæmoner og intellektuelle. I tråd hermed afspejles indholdsmæssigt kampe mellem tradition og modernitet, godt og ondt og moral og liderlighed. De mandlige hovedpersoner er Don Juan-typer, der pines af samvittighedsnag, mens de drives frem af deres lidenskaber. Kvindeskikkelserne lider under Singers tvetydige eller ligefrem fjendtlige holdning. Forfatterskabet, der tæller romaner, noveller, børnefortællinger og erindringer, indbragte i 1978 Singer Nobelprisen.

Presents an edition of the author's six stories.

A delightful addition to the cherished autobiographical work of the Nobel LaureateA sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi.The twenty-seven stories gathered here show this world as it appeared to a young boy. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a bygone world.

"Ung mand søger kærlighed" er 2. del af "Kærlighed & eksil" - den amerikansk-jiddische forfatter Isaac Bashevis Singers selektive, semi-fiktive erindringer. Singer kommer blandt andet ind på sin senere litterære karriere i Warszawa og sine kærlighedsaffærer i jagten på ægte kærlighed. Bogen efterfølges af "Fortabt i Amerika". Ung mand søger kærlighed er første bind af to af den amerikansk-jiddische forfatter Isaac Bashevis Singers erindringer. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991, amerikansk-jiddisch forfatter. Han fødtes i Polen, men udvandrede i 1935 til USA, og hans værker er nok bedst kendt på engelsk, selvom de blev skrevet på jiddisch først. I centrum for forfatterskabet står livet i jødiske landsbyer i Central- og Østeuropa før holocaust, fremskrevet i en realistisk stil med et islæt af mystik – en stil, der af flere bliver anset for både grotesk og obskøn. Persongalleriet udspringer af jødisk folklore og byder på alt fra synske personer, troldmænd, tåber, vise, ludere, bodfærdige, fanatikere til djævle, dæmoner og intellektuelle. I tråd hermed afspejles indholdsmæssigt kampe mellem tradition og modernitet, godt og ondt og moral og liderlighed. De mandlige hovedpersoner er Don Juan-typer, der pines af samvittighedsnag, mens de drives frem af deres lidenskaber. Kvindeskikkelserne lider under Singers tvetydige eller ligefrem fjendtlige holdning. Forfatterskabet, der tæller romaner, noveller, børnefortællinger og erindringer, indbragte i 1978 Singer Nobelprisen.