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The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classicâa deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one manâs flight from love
Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. 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. 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. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escapeâfrom his wife and his homeland and the last tendrils of his fatherâs religion.
Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870sâbut first published in 1960âIsaac Bashevis Singerâs second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such mid-century classics as Rabbit, Run; The Adventures of Augie March; and The Moviegoer. As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, âThe pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears . . . [Singer] is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.â
About: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster
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About: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster.
About: The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classicâa deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one manâs flight from loveYasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland.
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