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Rencontre au Sommet is an 86-page book containing the complete transcripts of conversations between Anthony Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer when they met for a Swedish television documentary in 1985.
The transcripts were translated into French and published by Mille Et Une Nuits in 1998.
The novelists discussed their respective religious experiences — Catholicism and Judaism — and their childhoods. They talked about God, the nature of evil, and the issue of free will in relation to Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange. There was also a discussion of the Yiddish language in which both had a strong interest.
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Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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The Family Moskat (1950) · Satan in Goray (1955) · The Magician of Lublin (1960) · The Slave (1962) · Zlateh the Goat (1966) · The Fearsome Inn (1967) · Mazel and Shlimazel (1967) · The Manor (1967) · The Estate (1969) · The Golem (1969) · Elijah The Slave (1970) · Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula (1970) · The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (1971) · Enemies, a Love Story (1972) · The Wicked City (1972) · The Hasidim (1973) · Fools of Chelm and Their History (1973) · Naftali and the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (1976) · A Little Boy in Search of God (1976) · Shosha (1978) · A Young Man in Search of Love (1978) · Reaches of Heaven. A Story Of The Baal Shem Tov (1980) · The Penitent (1983) · Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983) · Why Noah Chose the Dove (1984) · The King of the Fields (1988) · Scum (1991) · The Certificate (1992) · Meshugah (1994) · Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
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| Short story collections |
"Gimpel the Fool" (1957) My Father's Court (1966) · The Spinoza of Market Street (1961) · A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories (1970) · A Crown of Feathers (1973) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 1 (2004) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 2 (2004) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 3 (2004)
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| Non-fiction |
Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer (1985 with Richard Burgin) · Rencontre au Sommet (1998 with Anthony Burgess))
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