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...most curious relic. He pecks away at his 22-year-old Yiddish typewriter, writing of dubious demons and Polish shtetls (Jewish villages) that disappeared before he was born. Is he, at 63, the greatest living 19th century novelist-author of titles as blatantly old-fashioned as The Family Moskat? Is he a Jewish Hawthorne? No labels quite cling to a writer who was too long regarded as just a quaint retailer of legends...
...There are still mysterious forces at work in the world," says Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dipping his pen in an inkwell of wonders, he has drawn out, in his demonic, forceful fiction (The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote...
...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a wealthy Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best novelists in any language...
...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a wealthy Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...
...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a rich Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...