Item
The Tales of Rabbi Nachman
- Title
- en_US The Tales of Rabbi Nachman
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Martin Buber. Translated from the German by Maurice Friedman
- Creator
- en_US Buber, Martin See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:12:44Z
- en_US 1999-01
- en_US 1956
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:12:44Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1956
- Abstract
- en_US This book disappointed me, since I was hoping for something closer to fables. There are six stories in the center of the book, flanked by an introduction to Rabbi Nachman and Jewish Mysticism before the stories and the account of Rabbi Nachman's journey to Palestine after the stories. The stories are long and complex, far too long and complex to let them be fable material. Sometimes the mystical bent seems to make the stories either preachy or contrived. The best of them for me is The Clever Man and the Simple Man (71). Though it labors through some twenty pages, its point is a reversal worthy of a good fable. The later dust jacket in the Dilworth copy adds pictures of Buber and raises the price from the original $3.50 to $4.95.
- Identifier
- en_US 4513 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Horizon Press
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US BM532.N33 1956 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books