by Isaac Bashevis Singer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496489967
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«La destrucción de Kreshev» is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Acantilado in paperback (119 pages, in Spanish).
In the small shtetl of Kreshev, on the banks of the San River, the arrival of a wealthy timber merchant with his sick wife and his very young daughter will alter the life of the community. Between temptation and sin, faith and superstition, the narrative moves toward a tragic outcome under the influence of Satan.
Translation by Rhoda Henelde and Jacob Abecassis. Original title: 'The Destruction of Kreshev' (1961). Cuadernos del Acantilado collection.
For readers of Yiddish fiction and stories of Jewish tradition looking for a short, intense tale.
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).
