Simckes lazarre (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite all its tales of death and dying, this delightful and highly original collection of stories by Lazarre Seymour Simckes is teeming with life. The cast of characters includes God, Satan, Noah, Job, psychiatric patients, doctors, rabbis, a sexton, a Torah scribe, professors, a talking moose, and a parrot that sings American hit songs. Some stories are left up in the air, as if waiting for Elijah the Prophet to explain them at the end of days. This amazing book reminds us of the deeper and lasting joys of surrendering to the voice of a storyteller who can keep us on our toes from sentence to sentence with wit, audacity, orphic utterance, refreshing language, jokes and abiding affection and horror for human folly. As the writer Jerome Charyn puts it, 'Simckes is a master of the absurd. Every movement he makes, every line, every gesture, is both funny and dangerous.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In a Nutshell' by Lazarre Seymour Simckes is a collection of four illustrated stories in which characters jump from crisis to crisis and from story to story, as if caught up in a series of circus acts, dreaming of their lives instead of living them. The author himself is trapped in this nutshell, appearing in two of the tales. His previous work has been hailed as a riveting puzzle, unforgettable, funny, wild, unique, enlivened by an almost hysterical inventiveness, a black requiem for man's happiness and a haunting human tragedy.He has taught at Harvard, Vassar, Yale, Williams, Brandeis and Tufts, as well as in Israel at Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities, and in Finland at the University of Tampere. Currently, he is preparing to launch an interactive writing workshop for participants in the Middle East region which will enable them to share their life experiences.…