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Of Mischief and Havoc: Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer in His Centennial Year |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Bruce Allen |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,054 Words, 7,034 Characters |
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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: COLLECTED STORIES
By Isaac Bashevis Singer
Library of America. 3 Volumes. $35 each:
1. Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer. 789 pages.
2. A Friend of Kafka to Passions. 856 pages.
3. One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah. 899 pages.
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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: AN ALBUM
Edited by Ilan Stavans
Library of America, $12.95, 128 pages, illus.
Of such dichotomy and conflict is the fiction of Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) made. And now its greatest glory--more than 200 short stories, originally written in Yiddish and published in such newspapers and journals as the Jewish Daily Forward, translated into English b...
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...tory ("Heshele and Hanele, or the Power of a Dream") and a grimly ironic account of a betrayed husband's enduring revenge ("The Painting").
But every reader will want to choose his own favorites. All praise to the Library of America for providing this richly deserved homage to a writer whom we can be proud and grateful to honor as an American master.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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