The Professor and His Muse

About the Book

"The Professor and His Muse" is an allegory of comment and invention. There is humor in the dialogue, and the characters are alive.

David, an adjunct college professor in New York City, likes to day dream while correcting his students´ papers. At the center of his day dreams there is an elusive woman, Abishag, who orchestrates most of David´s preoccupations into happy endings, including his ´tenure.´

The settings of the professor´s dreams, New York City, Venice, Paris, and Montego Bay, are highly original and plausible.

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The Professor and His Muse brilliantly illuminates through wild fantasy a new Dostoyevskian ´underground man´ for the twenty-first century - one of the tens of thousands of displaced rogue scholars known as adjunt professors - passionately dedicated to the highest ideals of intellectual thought, while shunned and despised by the society which he only wishes to enrich and inspire - and so driven into a wild fantsmagorical dreamworld in which he can find fulfillment. The Professor and His Muse is a transcendental synthesis of our civilization´s grimmest educational failures and its highest cerebral aspirations!

--Professor Norman Kagan
adjunct communications lecturer
City University of New York
College of New Rochelle,The School of New Resources
Metropolitan College
Bergen Community College

About the Author

Maria Zubritski was born in Romania and immigrated to the United States with her husband, Paul, and daughter daniela, in 1975. She is a novelist, short story writer, and college professor. Her first short story, "The Cross-breed" received the Echinox Award for the best short story in 1973. Maria Zubritski read from "Call Me Pedro" and from work in progress at the Knitting Factory in NYC, in 1993,. Maria Zubritski discussed her work with Jean Ionescu, Nathalie Sarraute, and David Noakes, Sustainer of the New Opera Production and critic.