Isaac B. Singer Livres

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow’s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre–World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer’s unforgettable prose.

En 1863, les Polonais se révoltent contre la Russie, sans succès. Parmi les rebelles, le comte Wladislaw Jampolski est emprisonné et ses terres confisquées. Le bail de son domaine est cédé à Calman Jacoby, un grainetier juif très pieux. La Pologne commence à sortir de l'ère médiéval partout dans le pays, les locomotives, les usines, les routes et les villes modernes font leur apparition. C'est sur la vente des arbres de haute futaie du domaine de Jampolski pour la construction de traverses de chemin de fer que Calman Jacoby va fonder sa richesse. Devenu un homme d'affaires, il n'en demeure pas moins méfiant à l'égard des idées nouvelles et révolutionnaires qui voient le jour autour de lui, et menacent le monde ancien auquel il appartient. À travers l'histoire de la famille Jacoby, le roman dresse un tableau de la bourgeoisie juive du XIXe siècle, et plus largement d'un monde en pleine transition. Une saga familiale qui se fait la chronique d'une époque marquée par le changement et les doutes qu'il suscite.

Voici qu'une fois de plus que débarque sous la plume du magicien Isaac Bashevis Singer une troupe turbulente et haute en couleurs, composée d'étudiants, d'amoureux, de démons, d'acrobates, de poètes, de rabbins et quelques autres venus nous raconter de fantastiques histoires. Ainsi, Shoshe et son mari Shmule-Leibele qui s'aimaient tant et qui moururent - peut-être était-ce de bonheur - un soir de shabbat à Taibele. Et Yentl, un des plus célèbres personnages de Singer, Yentl qui était née femme mais qui avait l'âme d'un homme. Un jour, elle se coupa les cheveux, s'habilla en étudiant et s'en alla vivre dans une yeshiva.

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.

A drama set against the background of 17th century Poland. It is a love story rooted in the folklore of the period. The author also wrote "The Magician of Lublin", "Old Love", "Shosha", "The Estate", "Family Moskat" and "The Image and Other Stories".

Collection of stories from winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This novel portrays the difficulties encountered by traditionalist Jews coming to terms with the social changes that rocked Poland in the late 19th century. The central figure of the novel is Calman Jacoby, who stands between the old and the new, unable to embrace either whole-heartedly.

A collection of short stories by a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of bygone days. One moment the reader has goosebumps, the next moment her heart is inspired to the heights of human inspiration.

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)