The Book of Paradise (eBook)

The Marvellous Life Story of Samuel Abba Strewth

Itzik Manger (Autor)

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2023
256 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
9781782279266 (ISBN)

Infos

The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translationSamuel Abba is a young angel who has just been expelled from Paradise. As a result of a crafty trick, Samuel has retained his memory of his previous life. The humans around him plead for details of that other realm, but the Paradise of his mischievous stories is far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the very same divisions and temptations that shape the human world.Witty, playful and slyly profound, The Book of Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Published here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, it is a comic masterpiece that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane.

Autor

Itzik Manger was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Czernowitz (then Austria-Hungary; now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He began publishing poems and ballads in literary journals after the First World War, moving to Bucharest where he wrote for the local Yiddish press and gave lectures. Manger's literary reputation was made in Warsaw: he relocated there in 1928 and found considerable success publishing volumes of poetry and his own literary journal, doing public readings and composing lyrics for the Yiddish cabaret and the Yiddish film industry. Manger began writing The Book of Paradise in the mid-1930s amid rising anti-Semitism. The novel was initially serialized in 1937 in the Warsaw-based newspaper Naye Folkstsaytung. Forced to leave Poland the next year, Manger negotiated the publication of The Book of Paradise as a stateless person in Paris. He later moved to England and then the United States before settling in Israel, where he died in 1969.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2023
• Übersetzer: Robert Adler Peckerar
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: classic comic fiction • classic Jewish writers • Comic Novel • fiction angels • fiction Jewish history • Jewish classic fiction • sacred profane fiction • scripture fiction • Yiddish classic novel • Yiddish fiction • Yiddish literature
• ISBN-13: 9781782279266 / 9781782279266