The Last Demon

Description

'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left. Why demons, when man himself is a demon? Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced? I am the last of the persuaders'. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust survivor, illuminate the great themes of human suffering with supernal grace. This book includes "The Last Demon", "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" and "The Cafeteria".

Author description

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author who was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement. Following the dissemination of his family during World War I he took up a proofreading job in Warsaw before emigrating to the US prior to the Second World War to continue his writing career. He published 18 novels, 14 children's books and over a dozen collections of short stories. He is famous for his short stories and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He died in Florida in 1991.