Reviews
Praise for Isaac Bashevis Singer: "Singer's stories have plots that unravel not because they are old-fashioned--they are mostly originals and have few recognizable modes other than their own--but because they contain the whole human world of affliction, error, quagmire, pain, calamity, catastrophe, woe: things happen; life is an ambush, a snare; one's fate can never be predicted. His driven, mercurial processions of predicaments and transmogrifications are limitless, a cornucopia of invention." --Cynthia Ozick "[Singer] is a spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end." --Jean Stafford, The New Republic "A peerless storyteller, Singer restores the sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence." --David Boroff, Saturday Review "Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world." --Irving Howe, The New Republic "Extraordinarily beautiful... It's the integrity of the human imagination that Singer conveys so beautifully." --Alfred Kazin, The New Leader, Praise for Isaac Bashevis Singer: "Singer's stories have plots that unravel not because they are old-fashioned--they are mostly originals and have few recognizable modes other than their own--but because they contain the whole human world of affliction, error, quagmire, pain, calamity, catastrophe, woe: things happen; life is an ambush, a snare; one's fate can never be predicted. His driven, mercurial processions of predicaments and transmogrifications are limitless, a cornucopia of invention." --Cynthia Ozick "[Singer] is a spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end." --Jean Stafford, The New Republic "A peerless storyteller, Singer restores the sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence." --David Boroff, Saturday Review "Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world." --Irving Howe, The New Republic "Extraordinarily beautiful... It's the integrity of the human imagination that Singer conveys so beautifully." --Alfred Kazin, The New Leader "[Singer's]... impassioned narrative art... with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life." --The Nobel Prize Committee, 1978