The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Book Overview

Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728689
• ISBN13: 9780292728684
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"