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Satan in Goray
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About the Book
Polish-born American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, Singer´s chief subject is the traditional Polish life in various periods of history, largely before the Holocaust. He has especially examined the role of the Jewish faith in the lives of his characters, who are pestered with passions, magic, asceticism’s and religious devotion. According to Singer, "A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
Satan in Goray was Singer’s first novel, published in 1935 at the age of 26. It is considered by many the first indication of the extraordinary work, which was to follow through a long and productive career. Singer wrote in Yiddish, but his works are best known in English.
Satan in Goray begins as messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland; the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.
Irving Howe wrote of Satan in Goray "A remarkable book, brilliant, enigmatic, it deserves the attention of anyone interested in modern literature . . . A work of the imagination which neither permits not requires easy statements.”
RosettaBooks is proud to publish this first novel by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, truly one of the titanic writers of the twentieth century.
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