Spivsville
Jonathan Bate, 27 July 1989
The King of the Fields
by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cape, 256 pp., £10.95, July 1989,0 224 02663 1 Show More
by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cape, 256 pp., £10.95, July 1989,
“... In Book Two of Disraeli’s Sybil, or The Two Nations the hero meets two strangers in the ruins of an abbey. One of them claims that the monasteries represented the only authentic communities England has ever known. In modern times, ‘there is no community in England; there is aggregation, but aggregation under circumstances which make it rather a dissociating than an uniting principle ... ”