by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421365
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The Magician of Lublin, written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, is a novel that tells the story of Yasha Mazur, a well-known Jewish magician in early 20th century eastern Poland. Yasha travels through various towns presenting his magic, acrobatics, and escapism acts, while dealing with a turbulent sentimental life. The novel explores themes of faith, desire, and the search for meaning in a changing world.
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).
