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A Friend of Kafka brings together twenty-one short stories centered around Singer's most characteristic theme: the traditional life of the Jewish communities of Central Europe and their gradual disintegration due to changing customs and progress. But the writer's art, which always moves in a very subtle and nuanced way between irony and emotion, manages to universalize problems that at first might seem exclusively Jewish; by delving into characters torn between their attachment to the traditions in which they have been raised and their forced incorporation into modern life, Singer describes a…mehr

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A Friend of Kafka brings together twenty-one short stories centered around Singer's most characteristic theme: the traditional life of the Jewish communities of Central Europe and their gradual disintegration due to changing customs and progress. But the writer's art, which always moves in a very subtle and nuanced way between irony and emotion, manages to universalize problems that at first might seem exclusively Jewish; by delving into characters torn between their attachment to the traditions in which they have been raised and their forced incorporation into modern life, Singer describes a shared anguish. Singer revives the Jewish mentality and customs, analyzing and evoking the traditions of his people during a period of disintegration.
Autorenporträt
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Radzymin, 1904 - Miami, 1991). Escritor polaco en lengua yidis. Era el tercer hijo de una familia en la que 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, emigró de Polonia a 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 yidis, a los cuarenta y siete años de edad.