9780374530259
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories share button
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.56 (w) x 8.28 (h) x 0.57 (d)
Pages 224
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date January 2006
ISBN 9780374530259
Book ISBN 10 0374530254
About Book

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow’s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre–World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer’s unforgettable prose.

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From the Publisher

“Extraordinarily beautiful… It’s the integrity of the human imagination that Singer conveys so beautifully.” —Alfred Kazin, The New Leader

“Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.” –Irving Howe, The New Republic “A peerless storyteller, Singer restores the sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence.” –David Boroff, Saturday Review