Author Description

Filled with humor and irony, this compilation of tales mixes true stories with a good dose of fiction. Filmmaker Woody Allen, philosopher Sarah Kofman, and chess player Bobby Fischer are some of the characters who walk through these pages. Meshugá, besides including some classic themes (neurosis, hypochondria, invasive and overprotective mothers, etc.), reveals the mysteries of insanity, self-hatred, the perverse gaze of the other and eroticism so characteristic of the intellectual production of these genius Jews.