A Little Boy in Search of God. Mysticism in a Personal Light. First edition
Inbunden bok. Farrar, Doubleday & Co . First edition uppl. 1976. 209 sidor.
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A Little Boy in Search of God. Mysticism in a Personal Light.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Illustrated by Ira Moskowitz
Observera att denna bok är på engelska! Please note that this book is in English.
The book is in very good condition, but the dust jacket has edgewear and two closed tears.
First edition hardcover with clipped dustjacket.
Published by Farrar, Doubleday & Co 1976.
Illustrated.
This essay will try to relate the experiences of one who considers himself a bit of a mystic," and in the light of Singer's introductory exegesis, one who is also a bit of a seeker, one with a nodding acquaintance with demons and the better angels. Singer returns to his childhood and youth in Poland to chronicle the religious recognitions of a boyhood in which "Jewishness. . . contained all the flavours, all the vitamins, the entire mysticism of faith." But among the labyrinthine wonders of the cabala appeared the chill winds of a new secular science, the lures of modern philosophy, and a growing awareness of human tragedy. From the past Singer summons forth scenes to monitor the soul's journey: incantations mumbled by a small boy on dark stairs; a debate about free will between a pious mother and atheist brother in a winter of near starvation; the abuse of poor Jews by hooligans ("I could have killed myself . . . . What I was seeing was the essence of human history. . ."). Finally there is Singer's own proud "formula"—the neo-philosophic product of fevered reading and speculation, not to mention hunger, illness, and a long night in a lover's bed. "Life was. . . a little dust on the surface of [the earth] . . . transformed into consciousness which in God's dictionary was a synonym for death, protest, goals, suffering, having, asking countless questions and growing entangled in countless contradictions." A plumb line to the rich primal sea of Singer's storytelling.
Format ca: 26,5x18,5x2 cm. 209 pages
