Master of dreams
Subtitle: a memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer
By: Dvorah Telushkin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780688118662
Subjects: Jiddisch; Friends and associates; Schrijvers; Amerikaans
Description: Through a series of poignant and striking vignettes, Master of Dreams describes how Telushkin became Singer's assistant, then his editor, and after five years, his translator. And finally, she became the one person to whom Singer taught his craft as a writer. Throughout her tenure with Singer, Telushkin kept detailed diaries chronicling both their literary efforts and the evolution of their personal relationship. With this affectionate assessment of the later years of Singer's life, Telushkin reveals the brilliant but troubled Nobel laureate in all his complexity. Included here are many of the great moments in Singer's life - his winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, his fiery encounter with then-Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and his surprising meeting with Barbra Streisand, who adapted and starred in the movie version of Singer's short story "Yentl." But Master of Dreams reveals the private Singer as well, the "merry pessimist" haunted by despair and torn between the old-world ethics of his Hasidic forebears in Europe and the moral abandon of modern secular man.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343).
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Master of Dreams --; title: (1975-1977) --; title: House of Yizkor --; title: "I Vant You Should Tell Me Everything..." --; title: "Bring Me Stories, I Love Stories" --; title: "So, You Can Type, Dahlink?" --; title: House of Wonder --; title: "Aach, Just an Embryo" --; title: "Qvite an Audience" --; title: "X" --; title: Secret Kasha --; title: "Come In! Come In, My Friend" --; title: "Mehrilin Mawnraw Is Coming!" --; title: Enter Charlie --; title: Courtyard Dance --; title: Down Broadway --; title: (1977-1984) --; title: "I'm Fresh like a Daisy" --; title: Isaac Sings --; title: Rachel MacKenzie, the Perfect Lady --; title: The Balloon --; title: The Geshray --; title: "You Are in the Fehctory of Literature" --; title: "Vith Vone Flame" --; title: "Do You Heve Here an Account for Singeh?" --; title: "A Crook and Nothing More" --; title: "The Baby Is Hehving a Baby" --; title: Miami, the Faraway Island --; title: Corridor Dance --; title: The Prize --; title: The Bear's Brother --; title: Gudl the Tailor --; title: "Excuse Me, I Heve en Appointment vith the Prime Minister" --; title: "Do Nothing" --; title: "Vhat Did You Need vith So Much Growing?" --; title: "Vhat Did You Need vith So Much Yiddish?" --; title: "There Are No Excuses for the One Who Loses" --; title: (1984-1993) --; title: "My Desk Is My Battlefield!" --; title: A Divided Face --; title: A Teller of Tales --; title: Happy Birthday --; title: The Yarmulke --; title: The Eye --; title: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" --; title: House of Slumber --; title: The Salute --; title: Gilgul --; title: Lullaby and Good Night --; title: The Critic --; title: Broadway Reborn --; title: The King's Minyan --; title: House of Light.