Happiness and Other Fictions

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Happiness and friendship; love and beauty; art and revolution-these and other themes are investigated by the sometimes caustic sometimes lyrical pen of Yiddish writer Hersh Dovid Nomberg (1876-1927).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From unhealthy friendships debauchery and petty rivalry to cramped rooms fever dreams and creeping dread this collection of nineteen texts compiled and translated by Daniel Kennedy contains a mixture of naturalist short stories symbolist prose poems unsettling decadent vignettes and expressionistic fairy tales from a half-forgotten master of Yiddish letters. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Nomberg never wrote a sentence that didn't contain the seeds of an idea. </p><p class=ql-align-right>- Froyim Kaganovski</p><p><br></p>