by Isaac Bashevis Singer · ADULTOS ANTIGUO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466615426
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«El certificado» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Ediciones B in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
David Bendinger, an eighteen-year-old Jewish young man, arrives in Warsaw without money or lodging, aspiring to be a writer. Without resources for the trip to Palestine, he seeks a woman who will agree to marry him and pay his fare. Amid religious, political, and existential doubts, he becomes entangled with three women in turbulent relationships.
First edition in the Afluentes collection, translated by Teresa Snajer. The novel was serialized in 1967 in the New York Yiddish daily Forverts.
For readers of Jewish fiction and the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize in literature.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
