Stories by Isaac Bashevis

Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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"Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories are like no other story ever written: full of imagination, evocative and original."

An anthology of forty-seven stories selected by the author, the great representative of Yiddish literature, which includes his most famous stories.

«It is difficult for me to say why I chose the forty-seven short stories in this collection, selected from more than a hundred. Like a father from the East contemplating his harem full of women and children, I love them all,” Singer commented when he went to press with this volume. Reason was not lacking because his literary universe is very peculiar, almost private, but it becomes universal as soon as we come across the infinitely human desires and doubts of its characters.

From the first page, a range of times and places opens up for the reader: we will see men who have known Kafka and Stefan Zweig wander through the bars of Warsaw, asking for borrowed money and giving advice, to old people leaning out of a balcony in Miami who suddenly wake up to a new love, and women with their words choked from wanting to forget so much. We will get to know the lands of Poland and its peasants, and then walk through the streets of New York, and yet, after so much travel, what will remain is Singer's talent for telling that distillate of melancholy and pride that our own Exiles are imposed because, after all, one day we all had to leave the life that was ours. "We all play chess against fate... We know we can't win, but something drives us to fight."

The volume brings together the stories published in the classic compilation Gimpel, the fool from 1957, and the titles published until 1881.

New York Herald Tribune :"A storyteller like no other." Saturday Review: «Forty years ago I chose Knut Hamsun as my inspiration; If I had to start over today, I would take Singer as my inspiration. Everything he does is perfect."

Henry Miller: «Singer displays his true narrative talent in the short story, as can be proven thanks to this anthology made by the author himself.[...]

He offers in these pages the best of himself, becoming a storyteller already situated on the path of the masters of the genre.»

List of stories:
-Guimpl the naive
-The Knight of Krakow
-Happiness
-The Spinoza of Market Street
-The destruction of Kreshev
-Táibele and his demon
-Yentl, the boy of the yeshive
-Pope Zeidlus 1
-The last demon
-Short Friday
-The seance.
-A friend of Kafka's
-A crown of feathers
-Grandfather and grandson
-late love
-A story of two sisters
-Three encounters
-Passions
-The Renegade of Israel
-The power of darkness
-The bus