![]() ![]() As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “The pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears … is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers. The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Vintage Paperback - Fiction Books - Pre Owned Used - Good Condition. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such midcentury classics as Rabbit, Run The Adventures of Augie March and The Moviegoer. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. Set in the shtetls and Warsaw of the 1870s - but first published in 1960 - Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his wife and her faith and their homeland. For Yasha is an escape artist, not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Half Jewish, half gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. ![]()
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