Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Previous page. The Magician of Lublin. Isaac Bashevis Singer. out of 5 stars Paperback. $ Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer/5(30). THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN. Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. 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. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his . The Magician of Lublin is a semi-humorous, though mostly tragic, tale of a modern, Polish Don Juan as he descends into immorality, but, unlike Don Juan, he saves himself through repentance and religious dedication. It's Isaac Singer's assertion of Judaism; its ability to unify and uplift/5(K).
The Magician can dazzle the crowds with his sleight of hand, climb to any height, open any lock. Fearlessly, he does death-defying tricks in theaters all over Poland. At home, his sweet Jewish wife waits for him to return from the city. In the city, his adoring mistresses wait for him to return from home. He holds the key to all hearts, but his. Isaac Bashevis Singer () was a Polish-born Jewish-American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, and stories for children. His career spanned nearly seven decades of literary production, at the center of which was the translation of his work from Yiddish into English, which he undertook with various. Isaac Bashevis Singer. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect. When literature becomes too intellectual—when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions—it becomes without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer. When I was a little boy they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
“Though The Magician of Lublin has major philosophical underpinnings, Singer excels at moving the story along like a compulsively readable thriller. Blessed with the gift of creating worlds, his narratives invariably feel not like they've been written but as if they are happening in front of our eyes. The Magician of Lublin is a novel by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. Though originally written in Yiddish, it was first published in English in in the United States by Noonday, and in in the United Kingdom by Secker Warburg. In , the book was published in Yiddish by Hamenorah. The book was republished by Pocket Penguins in The Magician Of Lublin A Novel|Isaac Bashevis Singer2, Medicine for Dental Students 2E|Alagappan, Early Shii Thought The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir I B Tauris in Association With the Institute of Ismaili Studies|Arzina R Lalani, Paul and the Rise of the Slave Death and Resurrection of the Oppressed in the Epistle to the Romans Biblical Interpretation Series|K Edwin Bryant.
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