Oedipus in Brooklyn and other stories /
Blume Lempel is a fearless storyteller whose imagination skillfully moves between the realistic and the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. Her subjects like her settings, Paris, Poland, Brooklyn, Tel Aviv, California, range widely. A Holocaust survivor speaks to the shadows in her garden,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Simsbury, Connecticut : Takoma Park, Maryland :
Mandel Vilar Press ; Dryad Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Blume Lempel is a fearless storyteller whose imagination skillfully moves between the realistic and the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. Her subjects like her settings, Paris, Poland, Brooklyn, Tel Aviv, California, range widely. A Holocaust survivor speaks to the shadows in her garden, a pious old woman imagines romance, a New York subway commuter forges a bond with a homeless woman and in the title story, a mother is drawn into a transgressive relationship with her blind son. Lempel's narratives are masterpieces of poetic imagery and startling modernist touches, suffused with an abiding compassions. |
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| Item Description: | The first eleven stories in this volume were published in Yiddish in "A rege fun emes" (A moment of truth) by Blume Lempel (Tel Aviv: I.L. Peretz Publishing House, 1981). The second eleven stories were published in Yiddish in "Balade fun a kholem" (Ballad of a dream) by Blume Lempel (Tel Aviv: Israel Book Publishing House, 1986). |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 224 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781942134251 1942134258 9781942134213 1942134215 |