Rob

Religious motifs often burden the novel, but the literary qualities of pure images draw the reader further.

Nobel laureate Isak Baševis Singer's novel ROB is made like a fresco in which rural motifs alternate, sometimes completely naturalistic (a woman is torn apart and a barking dog is placed in her stomach), sometimes moved to fantasy and Chagall's daydreams, then images of pogroms, descriptions of ritual ceremonies, warm words of love , a gentle development of the love game and the orgy of a village at the end of the world.