Last Pages brings together some of the most thought-provoking and engaging works of Oscar Mandel, a noted Belgian-American playwright, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and scholar. Comprising essays, a novella, a one-act play, and poetry, Last Pages dances through Mandel's archives with wit, sharp intelligence, and sometimes controversy, as with his essay on Judaism, "To Be or Not to Be a Jew."
Oscar Mandel, poète, traducteur, fabuliste et dramaturge américain, est né en 1926 à Anvers (Belgique). En 1939, adolescent, il est contraint d'émigrer avec sa famille vers les États-Unis. Il écrit aussi bien en anglais qu'en français.
Oscar Mandel, American poet, translator, fabulist and playwright, was born in 1926 in Antwerp (Belgium). In 1939, a teenager, he was forced to emigrate with his family to the United States. He writes both in English and French.
The third of three books advertised in a recent New York Review of Books. I enjoyed both the fiction and the non-fiction. Oscar Mandel is a wonderful writer.