Rencontre au Sommet

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.

Novels
  • 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)
Short stories
Short story collections
  • "Gimpel the Fool" (1957)
  • 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)
Non-fiction
  • In My Father's Court (1966)
  • Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer (1985 with Richard Burgin)
  • Rencontre au Sommet (1998 with Anthony Burgess))
Works adapted into films
Plays