Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

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205 pp. When Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, the Swedish Academy praised his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultu ral tradition, brings universal human conditions to life." But Singer himself says, "I never sit down to write to make a better world. I consider myself an entertainer." These four stories -- "Gimpel the Fool", "Esther Kreindel the Second", "The Spinoza of Market Street", and "The Black Wedding" -- are infused with Singer's wit and imagination, wisdom and humor. Show more