by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141196770
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«Collected Stories» is the collection of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (624 pages, in English).
Volume with forty-seven stories selected by Singer himself throughout his career. His stories move between the supernatural, humor and tragedy, and portray Jewish life in the shtetls of pre-war Eastern Europe and in postwar America. Includes pieces such as «Gimpel the Fool», «Yentl the Yeshiva Boy» and «Taibele and Her Demon».
Work originally published in 1982 and reissued in 2011 within the Penguin Modern Classics series.
Recommended for readers of classic short fiction and twentieth-century Jewish literature, as well as for those wanting to approach the short narrative of a Nobel laureate.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
