“When I was a boy and told stories, people called me a liar,” recalled Isaac Bashevis Singer in an interview. - Now they call me a writer. It’s a big step forward, of course, but it’s the same thing.” “Meshuga” is a kind of continuation of perhaps Bashevis Singer’s most famous novel “Shosha.” The hero has become older, but questions of innocence, love and repentance concern him, as in his youth. The clear style and deep metaphysical roots of this prose make Singer similar to such great modernists as Borges and Kafka.