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Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches

Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches

Walden, Daniel
Gibbons, Frances Vargas

Hardcover

Series: Twentieth-Century American Jewish Writers, Book 6

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 0820424897
ISBN13: 9780820424897
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 1 1995
Pages: 168
Language: English
This study breaks new ground in its juxtaposition of five of Singer's major novels with five of his children stories to piece together Singer's personal struggle for individuality and artistic excellence. It shows, through detailed examination of the fiction, that Singer was forced to pursue these objectives surreptitiously since such non-traditional goals were prohibited in his Hasidic home. He developed an adversarial relationship with God, and created male characters who sought a suprasocial, nonreproductive relationship with women. He punished his characters for these transgressions but, in the end, he also punished some of the fiction.

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