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Original Title:	Der Kunzenmacher fun Lublin
ISBN:	0140048073 (ISBN13: 9780140048070)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Warsaw(Poland) Lublin(Poland) Piaski(Poland)
Literary Awards:	Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1964)

The Magician of Lublin

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 2264 Users | 123 Reviews

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Title	:	The Magician of Lublin
Author	:	Isaac Bashevis Singer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	1979 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published April 18th 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish. Cultural. Poland

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Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.

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Good story, I believe it is a statement about god and doing what is right, and something like karma, or everyone gets their justice sooner or later.

I didn't feel this was as successfully realized a novel as The Slave. But I do have to hand it to Singer: in an era in which his contemporaries were portraying sexually promiscuous male protagonists who pursue various "conquests" as heroes, Singer creates the same kind of character but shows him, in the end, to be morally bankrupts and depicts his eventual transformation into a spiritual seeker. Protagonists like this do not exist in the works of Philip Roth, John Updike, or Saul Bellow, as far

Well, that's the last time I pick up a book just because there's a monkey on the cover.

A wonderful book though morbid as the protagonist is not the most likeable person, especially in modern eyes. Singer again and again puts together the contradiction of tradition and modern life, belief and hereby, Jewish life in Poland of the 19th century and so much more. Its the first Singer book Ive read and will look for more.

This book is an entertaining look into the strengths and frailties in human nature, as seen through the life of Yasha, the main character, and those he interacts with. I found IBS to be realistic, and yet deeply compassionate toward him and others in their efforts to live life, achieve something, dismantle things, and have some perspective on it in the end. He reminds us that in many respects we are harder on ourselves in our human frailties than others judging our conduct from the outside in.

Cant miss with anything he writes!

Trickster Tumbles, Taps into TruthBut can we know what God wants us to do ? Isn't it a case of Man sewing throughout his lifetime the clothes that fit him ? We ask a million questions, however the answers lie only within. You have to do as you see fit. Some say the discipline of orthodox religion points out the road; every bird, every snowflake, every acorn lying on the grass is proof of God's existence. Others deny the whole thing and swear God never existed. Singer's tale of a