Dec 27, 2009

The Death of Methuselah, and Other Stories | The Death of Methuselah, and Other Stories

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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
First Published: 1988
Type of Work: Short stories
Time of Work: Ancient, medieval, and modern times
Setting: Poland, New York, and antediluvian Earth
Genres: Short fiction
Subjects: Suffering, Traveling or travelers, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Reality, Jews or Jewish life, Adultery, Metaphysics, Miracles, Holocaust, Jewish, Evil
Locales: New York, Poland

This volume of short stories, the tenth since Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957), explores what Isaac Bashevis Singer calls in an author's note “modern man and his disappointment with his own culture.” The stories are permeated with an irony that results from the clash between mystical explanations of life and rational ones. Ancient and modern views are juxtaposed. Many of the characters are wanderers, sojourners of some sort; many are advanced in age. A holy man, a recluse, an artist, criminals, Holocaust survivors, faithless husbands and wives, perverts, cynics,...

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The Death of Methuselah, and Other Stories | The Death of Methuselah, and Other Stories

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