Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition - Hardcover
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Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition
A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most influential of the 20th century--about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by...
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. An immigrant from Poland, he arrived in New York following the steps of his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer. He wrote essays, stories, and other writings for the Forverts, at times under pseudonym. Saul Bellow translated his story "Gimpel the Fool," which heralded his talent for a young generation of...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow (Translator), Liana Finck (Illustrator)
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