by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432033575
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«Escoria» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published in 1991 by Planeta in paperback (222 pages, in Spanish).
Max, a Polish Jew who emigrated to Argentina and achieved a comfortable position, returns to Warsaw in 1906. He moves among criminal gangs, trafficking networks and document forgery, in an environment where immoral conduct coexists with remnants of traditional piety. The novel evokes the bustle of a vanished Jewish Warsaw.
Spanish translation by Carlos Lagarriga. Planeta published it in 1991 in the Grandes Narradores collection.
A novel for anyone who wants to glimpse the Jewish Warsaw of the early 20th century through the hand of a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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).
