by Isaac Bashevis Singer · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466623056
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«El certificado» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
David Bendinger is a young Jew who arrives in Warsaw to live by writing. Without resources, he crosses paths with three very different women and has complicated relationships with them. Singer based it on an autobiographical episode to speak about identity, faith, and interwar Poland.
The work appeared in installments in 1967 in the New York Yiddish newspaper Der Forverts; translation by Teresa Snajer.
For readers of classic fiction and stories about Jewish identity in interwar Europe; Singer was a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
