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The sheer abundance of his production, along with that famous interest in sex, suggests a Jewish Boccaccio, and Singer is indeed Boccaccian in his exuberance, facility and invention. Rejecting modernism with its deliberate difficulties and programmatic experimentation, he remained faithful to the older pleasures of character and plot. Singer can get a story going in no time flat, conjure characters so vivid you feel as if they're sitting next to you, pour forth an endless supply of situations and surprises. Some of his stories are mere trifles (the third volume in particular contains a fair number of throwaways), but many more are enigmatic or mordant or sly, hauntingly strange or piercingly sad. Reading through the 2,500 pages of this collection, I found myself bored maybe twice. For all I know Isaac Singer may be a most devout Jew, but there is no “faith” in his stories and still less Enlightenment. For him, an alienated Rabbi Elimelik, “civilization” really is Gog and Magog. We hear so much about Tradition now. Who knows this Tradition better than Singer? Yet what survives for him, what is “usable” as the theologians put it, is just the witchcraft and the pain... Singer has many virtues, a wiry, inescapable style, an intensely personal, inimitable vision, a Machiavellian wit, but above all else it is the bracing, revivifying character of his insight that makes him important. I suppose it is a sort of message, “Life is a bitter tonic, but it cures death itself.” I suppose he could be compared to Sam Beckett, or to the Bernanos of Sous le Soleil de Satan. But he is, really, a lot further along the road to the end of night than they are and he starts out from less auspicious and promising origins. Perhaps it is that, so far out along that road which we really, all fooling aside, know we each must travel, his people remain so unkillable, and their comradeship in humanity so inextinguishable, that makes him important. ContieneIsaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149) (Vol 1) por Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories V. 2 : A Friend of Kafka to Passions (Library of America) (Vol 2) por Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America) por Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel, el tonto por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) El Spinoza de la calle Market por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Short Friday and Other Stories por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Séance and Other Stories por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Un amigo de Kafka y otros relatos por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) A Crown of Feathers por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Passions por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Old Love por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Image and Other Stories por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) La Muerte de Matusalén : y otros cuentos por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Gimpel the Fool [short story] por Isaac B. Singer (indirecto) The Black Wedding por Isaac B. Singer (indirecto) By the Light of Memorial Candles [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Gentleman from Cracow [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Joy [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) From the Diary of One Not Born [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Wife Killer [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Mirror por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) The Little Shoemakers [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto) Short Friday [short story] por Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirecto)
Now in a deluxe boxed set, The Library of America's three-volume collector's edition of the beloved Nobel Prize-winning writer and master storyteller.First pubished ten years ago to mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of ten American writers to be awarded the Nobel Prize and perhaps the most influential and beloved Jewish American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer- The Collected Storiesis now reissued in a deluxe boxed set. Beginning with "Gimpel the Fool," whose title story brought Singer to prominence in America when translated from Yiddish by Saul Bellow in 1953, and concluding with "The Death of Methuselah," the collection published three years before his death in 1991, this three-volume edition brings together for the first time all the story collections Singer published in English in the versions he called his "second originals"-translations he supervised and collaborated on himself, revising as he worked. In addition, Collected Storiesincludes thirteen previously uncollected stories from the Ransom Center archives. Here are nearly 200 stories in all-the full range of Singer's vision encompassing Old World shtetl and New World exile. Born in Poland in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer was raised in the traditional culture that was to be annihilated during World War II, and his haunting stories testify to the richness of that vanished world. Singer's Old World stories reveal a wild, mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism evocative of both local storytelling traditions and dark undercurrents born of Singer's own concerns and obsessions. As a special feature, the boxed set also includes Isaac Bashevis Singer- An Album, a compact illustrated biography accompanied by appreciations of and anecdotes about Singer from some of today's leading writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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