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Gimpel the Fool
Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer
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#bookspin for March is x 5 short stories… this one was whimsical and strange but I liked it!

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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The short stories in this read like folktales- but with a bit of a twist. For example, some were narrated by demons. Overall, I liked this book and want to try reading some of Singer's novels.

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AlaMich I listened to the audio of Gimpel the Fool (the story itself) recently was very entertained. It was read by a stage actor who was pretty famous in his day, and it really was like someone reading me a folktales the way it was meant to be read. 😊 8y
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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Reading a book of short stories set in communities that are lost forever, but #AllIsNotLost in our time yet.

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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer
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#Booktober : #awardwinning - This short story collection has been on my to-read list for really long time. Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. He wrote in Yiddish and interestingly, the English translator of the title story in the collection, Saul Bellows was also a Nobel laureate- he won the prize in literature in 1976. #Jewlit

AlaMich I just listened to the audio of this, read by Theodore Bikel, a pretty famous stage actor "in his day," as my father the drama major would say. It was really good. 8y
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