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Overview
An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets.Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life ofwealth and respectabilty he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to thepo verty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears animpotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeminglife of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. .
Synopsis
An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets.
Publishers Weekly
Written two decades ago and first published in English early last year, this culturally rich but oddly uninvolving novel by the late Nobel laureate focuses on the existential dilemma of a Jewish man in 1906 Warsaw. (Apr.)