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| Original Title: | Der Kunzenmacher fun Lublin |
| ISBN: | 0140048073 (ISBN13: 9780140048070) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Warsaw(Poland) Lublin(Poland) Piaski(Poland) |
| Literary Awards: | Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1964) |
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.92 | 2264 Users | 123 Reviews
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Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.
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| Title | : | The Magician of Lublin |
| Author | : | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1979 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published April 18th 1959) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish. Cultural. Poland |
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*Spoiler alert*This book focuses mainly on the marital and extramarital affairs of a semi-well known magician from a shtetl of 19th century Eastern Europe. Despite his many natural gifts and affinity for delving deeper into the world of performing tricks, he cannot - and moreso does not want to - contain his lusty antics which inevitably end up hurting those involved. I was disappointed when I got halfway through and realized that that most of this book would be about a stereotypically pompousHow lucky I am only to be reading Singer now, with some nine or ten of his novels still before me. The Magician of Lublin is my third. I feel somehow blessed. I've come across a theme shared here with another Singer novel, Enemies: A Love Story. In that later book the protagonist, Herman Broder, is torn between three women. A Holocaust survivor, Broder has lost all belief in God. He finds a reason for living in each of the three women. The rest of his life is one long panic attack. The wife he
I'm missing something here. I had absolutely no empathy with or sympathy for the main character, I have no picture of him in my head, I didn't believe in him, I didn't understand him. I didn't care about him or any of those around him. My conclusion is that this is not well written. It paints a rich picture of the Poland of the period; though I have no idea if it is historically accurate, it was at least interesting. That seems to be the strength of the author and the point of his work. In this
How lucky I am only to be reading Singer now, with some nine or ten of his novels still before me. The Magician of Lublin is my third. I feel somehow blessed. I've come across a theme shared here with another Singer novel, Enemies: A Love Story. In that later book the protagonist, Herman Broder, is torn between three women. A Holocaust survivor, Broder has lost all belief in God. He finds a reason for living in each of the three women. The rest of his life is one long panic attack. The wife he
Cant miss with anything he writes!
This is a delightfully sad book that deals with promiscuity, money, loneliness, extroverted insensitivity, and theology - quite the combination. Published in 1960 but set in late 1800s Poland, and translated from Yiddish, it reads like a risqué nineteenth century novel. Milton Hindus' 1960 review in the New Yorker does a much better job at capturing the essence of the novel, and I like the idea that the hero, the magician and escape artist Yasha Mazur, "escapes into a prison" of his own making.
Everyone was like a lock, each with his own key. Only one such as he, Yasha, could unlock all souls.
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