Bøger af Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer"--Cover.

Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."

A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Part parable of modern civilization, part fascinating historical novel, it reaffrims the author's reputation as a master storyteller.

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

"Huset Jacoby" er fortællingen om en polsk-jødisk families brogede liv. Et liv fyldt med kærlighed og had, håb, drømme, sejre og nederlag. Historien foregår i sidste halvdel af 1800-tallets Europa og USA – en tid med hastig industriel vækst og radikal social forandring, der gjorde det muligt for det jødiske samfund til at flytte fra ghettoen til mere fremtrædende lokationer.Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991, amerikansk-jiddisch forfatter. Født i Polen og udvandret til USA. Hans værker er bedst kendt på engelsk, men de er skrevet på jiddisch. Centralt i forfatterskabet er livet i jødiske landsbyer i Central- og Østeuropa før holocaust, stilen er realistisk med et islæt af mystik. Personerne udspringer af jødisk folklore og byder på synske personer, troldmænd, tåber, vise, ludere, bodfærdige, fanatikere og djævle, dæmoner og intellektuelle. Indholdsmæssigt afspejles kampe mellem tradition og modernitet og moral og liderlighed. De mandlige hovedpersoner er Don Juan’er, der pines af samvittighedsnag, og drives frem af deres lidenskaber, kvindeskikkelserne er tvetydige. Forfatterskabet tæller romaner, noveller, børnefortællinger og erindringer. I 1978 modtog Singer Nobelprisen."The Manor is an epic of Polish Jewry and of the mystery of human hope ... a great book." The Boston Globe"What he has achieved [in The Estate] is a sense of impetuousness, the fury, the bursting energy in the hearts of these Jews. ... Tragedy is followed by new sorrows; joy by new joys." Newsday

"Huset Jacoby" er den amerikansk-jiddische forfatter Isaac Bashevis Singers fortælling om en polsk-jødisk families brogede liv fyldt med kærlighed og had, håb, drømme, sejre og nederlag. Historien foregår i sidste halvdel af 1800-tallets Europa og USA, en tid hvor industriel vækst og sociale forandringer, gjorde det muligt for det jødiske samfund til at flytte fra ghettoen til mere fremtrædende lokationer.Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991, amerikansk-jiddisch forfatter, født i Polen, udvandrede i 1935 til USA. Hans værker er nok bedst kendt på engelsk, men er skrevet på jiddisch først. Centralt i forfatterskabet står livet i jødiske landsbyer i Central- og Østeuropa før holocaust. Stilen er realistisk med et islæt af mystik. 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, både romaner, noveller, børnefortællinger og erindringer, indbragte i 1978 Singer Nobelprisen."The Manor is an epic of Polish Jewry and of the mystery of human hope . . . a great book." The Boston Globe

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.

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. It chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs.

Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. This title offers an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life.

Offers an exploration of primitive history. This title portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. It describes the brutality, prejudice and subjugation that occur when hunter-gatherers and farmers struggle for supremacy over the land.

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town.