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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to ''The Jew from Babylon,'' a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as ''Brother Beetle'' and ''There are No Coincidences'' from the 1960s, the works collected in this Library of America volume, the third of three, serve as a retrospective view of Singer''s achievement as a storyteller. COLLECTED STORIES: ONE NIGHT IN BRAZIL TO THE DEATH OF METHUSELAH also contains ten stories published in English translation for the first time, selected from the extensive collection of Singer''s papers at the University of Texas. Ranging from ''Between Shadows,'' an evocative, naturalistic sketch set in Warsaw, to the bittersweet melodrama ''Morris and Timma,'' to the beguiling fable ''Hershele and Hanele, or The Power of a Dream.'' These stories enrich our understanding of Singer as a writer. The volume also includes ''The Bird,'' ''My Adventures as an Idealist,'' and ''Exes,'' stories published in magazines that were not included in any of Singer''s collections. Complementing the seventy-eight stories gathered here is the introduction to Gifts (1985), a version of a lecture Singer had delivered since the early 1960s - sometimes called ''Why I Write as I Do'' - which illuminates his biography, philosophical outlook, and literary aims.

DKK 370.00
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

Beginning with ''Gimpel the Fool,'' the story that brought Isaac Bashevis Singer to prominence in America in the 1950s, this Library of America volume is the first of three gathering most of Singer''s short fiction. These stories were published in English in the versions he called his ''second originals,'' translations that he supervised and on which he himself often collaborated, revising his Yiddish texts as he worked. Born in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer grew up in a devout household in Warsaw''s Jewish quarter, but he also spent time in the villages and market towns of eastern Poland, most notably Bilgoray, where he took refuge with his mother and brother during World War I. He had firsthand exposure to forms of Jewish folk culture that were destroyed by the Nazis, and many of his works testify to the richness of that annihilated world. In his stories set in Poland, Singer drew upon vernacular traditions for tales imbued with a wild, sometimes mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism that was an outgrowth of local storytelling but containing dark undercurrents born of his own concerns and obsessions. At the same time, his skeptical but never dismissive engagement with religion and spirituality - and the opposing forces of secularism - enabled him to take part in the creative ferment of Jewish modernism but also distance himself from its politics and literary methods. In addition to ''Gimpel the Fool,'' this volume - drawn from Singer''s first four English-language collections of stories originally published in the 1950s and 1960s - contains some of Singer''s most beloved tales: ''The Spinoza of Market Street,'' ''The Gentleman from Cracow,'' ''Taibele and Her Demon,'' and ''Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,'' the basis of a hit Broadway play and the film Yentl.

DKK 268.00
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 2 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 2 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - The Library of America - Plusbog.dk

By the time Isaac Bashevis Singer published the three short-story collections gathered in this Library of America volume - A Friend of Kafka (1970), A Crown of Feathers (1973), and Passions (1975) - he had made his home in America for nearly four decades. Earning his living as a columnist for the Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Jewish Daily Forward), he had risen from nearly complete anonymity outside of his Yiddish readership to international celebrity as ''the last of the great Yiddish fiction writers,'' as Anzia Yzierska once called him. Awarded prizes, feted in the United States and abroad, eagerly sought for lectures and interviews, he had brought about this remarkable transformation primarily though the translation of his stories. Often collaborating with his translators, Singer intended the English version of his stories to be regarded not as diminished approximations of his Yiddish stories but as works shaped by the author in the language of his adopted homeland. The sixty-five stories in Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions-the second of three volumes-reflect Singer''s origins in Poland and his long exile in America. Although he continued to write tales drawing on Jewish folk traditions and supernaturalism, many of his stories from the late 1960s and early 1970s take place in the United States, as Singer explored the psychic devastation wrought by the Nazi genocide on Holocaust survivors (''The Cafeteria''), evoked the fragility of transplanted forms of Jewish life and belief (''The Cabalist of East Broadway''), and reflected on the spiritual hazards of worldly success in America (''Old Love''). Stories such as ''A Day in Coney Island,'' ''A Tutor in the Village,'' and ''The Son''-based on Singer''s reunion with his son Israel Zamir after a twenty-year separation - show Singer blurring the line between autobiography and fiction, a tendency that marks much of his later writing.

DKK 370.00
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Singer, An Elegy - George Fetherling - Bog - Anvil Press Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Singer, An Elegy - George Fetherling - Bog - Anvil Press Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

'Singer, An Elegy' is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. 'Singer, An Elegy' has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires to much greater straightforwardness than Fetherling's previous poetry. " 'Singer, An Elegy' possesses all the fine qualities of Fetherling's prose and in many ways gives them their freest rein. Eloquent passages and striking phrases allow a wide experience and erudition to operate here with often startling appropriateness." - The Globe & Mail

DKK 112.00
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Matt Monro: The Singer's Singer - Michele Monro - Bog - Titan Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Matt Monro: The Singer's Singer - Michele Monro - Bog - Titan Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A singer once said "His pitch was right on the nose: his word enunciation letter perfect: his understanding of a song thorough. He will be missed very much, not only by myself, but by his fans all over the world." The singer was the legendary Frank Sinatra, the man he spoke about: Matt Monro. Matt Monro: The Singer''s Singer , is the highly-anticipated story of one of Britain''s most iconic singers, tracing Matt Monro''s life from his poverty stricken upbringing in post-war Britain to his day job as London bus driver to the steady rise to fame that saw the singer battling the highs and lows of the entertainment industry to become one of Britain''s best-loved entertainers. This is the man behind the image, the man who rubbed shoulders with some of the most famous names in the business, who recorded the very first James Bond theme song (From Russia with Love) and the international hits Softly as I Leave You, Born Free, Walk Away and Portrait of My Love. In an intimate portrait written by the singer''s daughter, Michele Monro, and drawing on more than two hundred interviews from the most important characters in Matt''s life, The Singer''s Singer exposes the man behind the voice, telling the story of how Terry Parson overcame poverty, prejudice and alcoholism to arrive at the very heart of the post-war British entertainment industry as the unforgettable Matt Monro. Including never-before-seen photography, exclusive correspondence between Matt and some of the biggest names in the music business and a rich array of personal anecdotes, this is the first comprehensive look at the life of the man his peers dubbed ''the Singer''s Singer'', the irreplaceable Matt Monro.

DKK 141.00
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