Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard...
...first, Singer felt lost in the United States. He did not know a word of English and only learned to speak it fluently while helping to translate his book, Satan in Goray into English. American Yiddish inflections and vocabulary confused him. "Then life itself confused me," he said. "I saw many things for which I had no name. In Warsaw there was a name for everything, But here, you know, life is so rich." He looked wistful for a moment, perhaps at the thought of the passage of time. His face cleared, and he told another ancedote...
Singer's stories and novels are varied in scope and focus. The Magacian of Lublin is a bittersweet variation on the theme of the Wandering Jew; Satan in Goray deals with the orgiastic response to a false messiah in seventeenth-century Poland, while stories like "Short Friday" celebrate domesticity and the simple virtues: But perhaps Singer's masterpiece of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool." provides the most tender display of his virtuoso talent. In a world which places a premium on wisdom, Singer's hero is the fool, the one who receives goat turds instead of sweets. The simpleton...
...summer." Michael agrees: "I saw a friend of mine shoot a girl." Chicago's ghettos are dominated by gangs. Some, like the Blackstone Rangers and the Black Disciples, are virtual nations of the young, with their own hierarchies, territories and protocols. There are also the Deuces Wild, Satan's Lovers, the Imperial Clybourne Corruptors and the Suicide Cobras...
...real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein's hero says, "there is only one religion-and it is not a faith, it's a certainty: 'Thou art God!' " Manson's followers often called him God, Jesus or Satan...