by Isaac B. Singer · Planeta. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432071089
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«Un amigo de Kafka» is a collection of short stories by Isaac B. Singer, published by Planeta in paperback (268 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of stories portraying the Jewish universe and its clash with modern life. In these tales, faith, doubt, and the search for meaning make their way through moral and existential dilemmas; the tone combines irony and closeness to the characters.
Translated from the English by A. Bosch, from A Friend of Kafka. Isaac B. Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
For readers of classic short fiction, Jewish literature, and twentieth-century Polish narrative.
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).
