The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1982
Nobel laureate. Demons, rabbis, and desire in the shtetl. Singer wrote in Yiddish about a world that was already gone.
The case against
Demons recur, and so does everything else: another dybbuk narrator, another stranger in a cafeteria confessing to a Yiddish writer suspiciously like Singer. Women here tend toward three roles: temptation, nag, or punishment. And these are translations Singer reshaped into plainer English than his Yiddish; the original instrument stays out of reach.
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