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Last demons, last temptations: I. B. Singer vs. Aleksander Wat's short stories

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Tomassucci G.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 6(108)
129-146
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Did Isaac Bashevis Singer know the works of Polish avant-garde masters, particularly of those of Jewish descent? Singer himself would deny, here and there, although he did acridly allude to Tuwim or Jasienski in some of his writings. The authoress' present attempt is to prove that I. B. Singer knew not only the 'Skamander group' members' output but also Polish futurists' works. He has also built up on Aleksander Wat's 'Bezrobotny Lucyfer' (Lucifer Unemployed), the Polish literary hit of 1920s, learning on it the techniques of nonsense and pastiche. In specific, she has compared two novels by Wat: 'Bezrobotny Lucyfer' and 'Zyd wieczny tulacz' (Jew the Eternal Wanderer) against 'The Last Demon' and 'Pope Zejdl', the two short stories by Singer.
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THE BEYOND IN SELECTED NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES BY JUAN RULFO AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (Za(swiaty) w wybranej twórczosci Juana Rulfo i Isaaka Bashevisa Singera)

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Bak M.
Ruch Literacki
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2009
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vol. 50
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issue 4-5
350-369
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The worlds which emerge from the novel 'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) and a selection of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), 'Yashid and Yeshida', 'Esther Kreindl the Second', 'Short Friday', 'A Wedding in Brownsville', combine an astonishing variety of traditions with the original style of their authors. A comparison of their vision of the beyond reveals a number of remarkable similarities in the way they perceive and describe the other world. It seems that in each case the imaginative projection of the beyond is deeply indebted to the writers' native culture and traditions. In reconstructing the mindset of the residents of small provincial towns, Rulfo and Singer cannot but depict their belief systems and the religious practices they cling to. At the same time the article points out some parallels of the fiction discussed here with the poetics of the so-called magic realism
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