Станция Бахмач

by Israel J. Singer, Исроэл-Иешуа Зингер

Questo volume contiene in realtà due racconti, dei due fratelli Singer, in un insolito formato bifronte.
Nella traduzione dallo yiddish di Erri De Luca il libro presenta inatti il racconto inedito La stazione di Bakhmatch di Israel Joshua Singer, epopea sbigottita di un ebreo polacco allo sbando nella Russia del 1919, e l’ultimo capitolo inedito de La famiglia Mushkat di Isaac Bashevis Singer, finora sconosciuto nel mondo, rimasto chiuso nell’edizione yiddish che fu stampata a New York nel 1950.

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. His granddaughter is the novelist, Brett Singer.

Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story Pearls, Singer became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward. His short story Liuk appeared in 1924, illuminating the ideological confusion of the Bolshevik Revolution. He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. He died of a heart attack at age 50 in New York City in 1944.

Reviews

[Dimitrii Ivanov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Три небольших повести, все отличные: одна из местечковой жизни; в другой главный персонаже, командир Красной армии, героичен что у соцреалистов, но при этом сионист; третья, кажется, автобиографическая, показывает кровавый хаос гражданской войны глазами аутсайдера.

[avidreader76 · Rating 5 out of 5]

По ощущениям, первая повесть это Шолом-Алейхем, вторая - Бабель, ну а третья как ни странно - "Бег" и где-то "Тихий Дон".

[Veronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

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