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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 (LOA #151) - One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah (Hardcover)
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 (LOA #151) - One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah (Hardcover)
Series: Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer Edition, 3
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To mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, The
Library of America presents Collected Stories, a major celebration
of Singer's achievement. Beginning with Gimpel the Fool, whose
title story brought Singer to sudden prominence in America when
translated 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, revising as he worked. In addition,
Collected Stories includes previously uncollected or unpublished
stories from his manuscripts in the Ransom Center collections,
providing a rare glimpse into the workshop of a literary genius.
Here are nearly 200 stories--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 a
traditional culture that perished at the hands of the Nazis during
the Second World War, and his haunting stories testify to the
richness of that vanished world. Singer's Old World tales reveal a
wild, mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism evocative of
local storytelling traditions. After his immigration to America,
Singer's stories increasingly explore the daily lived reality and
imaginative boundaries of Jewish culture as it was transplanted to
the United States, revealing him to be the emblematic immigrant
American writer, a writer whose vision and insights enlarged our
idea of what it is to be an American.
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Imprint: |
HarperCollins (USA)
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer Edition, 3 |
Release date: |
July 2004 |
First published: |
July 2004 |
Authors: |
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Editors: |
Ilan Stavans
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Dimensions: |
206 x 132 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
915 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-931082-63-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
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Short stories
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LSN: |
1-931082-63-4 |
Barcode: |
9781931082631 |
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