The Spinoza of Market Street (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1914
- Setting: Warsaw
- Principal Characters: Dr. Nahum Fischelson, Black Dobbe
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Marriage, Reality, Jews or Jewish life, World War I, Sick persons, Idealism, Time, Isolation, Eternity
- Locales: Warsaw, Poland
The Story
Dr. Nahum Fischelson is a Jewish intellectual who has studied in Switzerland and has achieved some fame as a commentator on the works of Benedict de Spinoza, the seventeenth century Dutch philosopher. As the story opens, Fischelson is a poor old man with a stomach ailment that the doctors cannot diagnose. He lives on an annuity of five hundred marks provided by the Jewish community of Berlin. In an attic room overlooking Market Street in Warsaw, he pursues his study of Spinoza's Ethics, brooding on the great philosopher's ideas about the divine laws of reason...
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