Themes of Death and Sexuality in "Love and Exile" by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Themes of Death and Sexuality in “Love and Exile” by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

























Isaac Bashevis Singer, born July 24th 1904 as Icek-Hersz Zynger in Leoncin, Poland, went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1978 as a result of his great talent for writing short stories and his indebt and heart touching depictions of traditional Polish life throughout various periods of history. Prominent in this great Yiddish writers works, however, are themes and images of death and sexuality, sometimes so vivid and startling that one can’t but note them as extraordinary. It poses the question; is the presence of such controversial themes usual for Yiddish writers producing literature at the time of the holocaust, or did it all stem solely from the most inner and individual part of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s great and somewhat melancholic mind?
Love and Exile, the autobiographical trilogy by Singer, arguably provides us with the primest ex...