The Magician of Lublin

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The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classica deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from love Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him...(展開全部) The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classica deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from love Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escapefrom his wife and his homeland and the last tendrils of his father’s religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870sbut first published in 1960Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such mid-century classics as Rabbit, Run ; The Adventures of Augie March ; and The Moviegoer . As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review , The pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears . . . [Singer] is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.” 艾薩克·巴什維斯·辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer，1904-1991），美國著名猶太裔作家，先後創作長篇小說《莫斯卡特一家》，《莊園》，《農莊》等。短片小說《羽毛的王冠》，《短片小說集》，《意象集》等。其中1978年《盧布林的魔術師》獲得當年諾貝爾文學獎。辛格15歲開始文學創作，曾先後兩次獲美國全國圖書獎，多次獲得美國其他文學獎金。他一生共創作30餘部作品。辛格“因為他的充滿激情的敘事藝術，這種藝術既紮根于波蘭猶太人的文化傳統，又反映了人類的普遍處境”。作品中的豐富成語和活潑語句受到評論界高度讚揚，認為那是任何譯文都

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