- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140186689
- ISBN-13: 978-0140186680
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,972,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Through the figure of Cybula, defeated leader of a tribe of hunter-gatherers, this novel explores the moment when prehistory dissolved into history, superstitions became tingled with scepticism, and men began to turn from many gods towards one god.
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good, but not the best from Singer, 4 May 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The King of the Fields (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
This book deals with transition between the society of hunters and gatherers into society of peasants who worked the land. Changes are difficult, old beleifs die hard, and at the dawn of civilization there were many cruel things hapenning. I wish I could beleive that human beings have made significant progress, but unfortunately that probably isn't true.
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History?, 10 Aug 2004
By Tory "toryofmaine" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The King of the Fields (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
Over the years, I have read this novel a number of times. Contrary to many interpretations of this work, I did not view it as a historical novel, at least not the history that is represented on the surface. Instead, it is the history of Poland, Christianity and Judaism now, then and every time in between. Furthermore, it is a story of the human condition. One should not approach this novel in a literal sense. If you do, you are bound to be disappointed.
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Not Singer's best, but a good way to view his creative drives, 17 Dec 2005
By Eric Maroney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The King of the Fields (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
This novel, a pre-history of Poland, is really a post-history of Isaac Singer. The concerns of his character and the characterization of this Poland is Singer's: a man who has a plural marriage (this time with a mother and daughter, sometimes it is two sisters, sometimes unrelated women), who grows disgusted with eating meat, and whose only faith is the belief in death. This is the end of The Family Moskat: "Death is the real Messiah, and that is the truth!" And here it is again, slightly less brilliant and stiring, but not without some drama and interest. Singer's Poland (like Singer's New York) is really about the difficulty of finding and maintaing belief in our world, a world that works to strip us of it with unbending will.
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