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Old Truths and New Cliches - Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hardcover)
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Old Truths and New Cliches - Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary
and personal essays Old 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essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac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 The unpublished essays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 "Old Truths and New Cliches," "The Kabbalah
and Modern Times," and "A Trip to the Circus." 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.
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