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Gimpel the Fool : And Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1988, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374500525

ISBN-139780374500528

eBay Product ID (ePID)140048

Product Key Features

Original LanguageYiddish

Book TitleGimpel the Fool : and Other Stories

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary, Jewish

Publication Year1988

GenreFiction

AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-011236

Reviews"When I first readGimpel the Fool. . . I felt not only that I was reading an extraordinarily beautiful and witty story, but that I was moving through as many historical levels as an archeologist at work . . . It is the integrity of the human imagination that Singer conveys so beautifully."--Alfred Kazin,The New Leader

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal839/.133

SynopsisSinger's first colleciotn of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first published in 1957. The title story, beautifully translated by Saul Bellow, follows the exploits of gimpel, an ingenuous baker, who is universally deceived but declines to retaliate. Other protagonists are not so innocent. Hodel, of The Gentleman from Cracow, is wed to Ketev Mriri, Chief of the Devils, and Nathan, of The Unseen, leaves his wife for a demon in the form of a young woman. Enlightened or condemned, all characters inhabit the pre-World War II ghettos of Poland, and take shape in Singer's distinctive prose.