by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020964791
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«Le Golem» is the fantastic tale by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Seuil in paperback (77 pages, in French).
In sixteenth-century Prague, the Jewish banker Reb Eliezer Polner is falsely accused of a ritual crime. To save him and protect his community, Rabbi Leib creates a giant of clay, the Golem, with immense strength but no control. The creature, driven by human passions, becomes dangerous and its creator must stop it.
Translation from English (The Golem) by Marie-Pierre Bay. French edition published on 13 September 2007; the first French version dates from 1984 (Stock, L'histoire du Golem).
Suitable for readers aged 12 and up and for those interested in fantasy with roots in Jewish tradition.
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).
