Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah

Resumen del libro

When Isaac Bashevis Singer received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 74, the award crowned an extraordinary career that began in the thriving, contentious literary milieu of Jewish Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s and continued through Singer's long residence in New York City. In his last years Singer continued to put together short-story collections in English, drawing from a fund of previously untranslated stories that had appeared in Yiddish newspapers and magazines as well as including more recent work. The resulting array of stories represents the full range of his achievement as a storyteller. As one of three volumes celebrating Singer's mastery of the short-story form, Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah contains ten stories previously unpublished in English.

Biografía del autor

Isaac Bashevis Singer. (Radzymin, 1904 - Miami, 1991) Escritor polaco en lengua yiddish. Era el tercer hijo de una familia en la que por ambas ramas abundaban los rabinos. Vivió desde muy pequeño en un barrio humilde de Varsovia, por entonces importante centro de cultura y espiritualidad judía. Ante la creciente amenaza de invasión alemana a Polonia, emigró a los Estados Unidos donde se reunió con su hermano, que llevaba ya dos años en Nueva York. En 1978 recibió el premio Nobel de Literatura, única vez que se otorgó a un escritor en lengua yiddish.