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Isaac Bashevis Singer : conversations

Title: Isaac Bashevis Singer : conversations / edited by Grace Farrell.
Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1992.

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xxx, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Isaac Bashevis Singer loved to give interviews. He was famous for encouraging interruptions of the solitary task of writing. These twenty-four welcomed interruptions are representative of the many he allowed over a twenty-five-year period. Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman. In these talks Singer discusses the nature of his writing, its ethnic roots, his demonology, the importance of free will, and the place of storytelling in human life. The interviews with Singer reveal both his impish sense of humor and a determination that sustained him through many years of limited acclaim and comparative neglect by critics. Yiddishists often faulted him for refusing to use his talent as a force for change in the world, Jewish readers often deplored his use of pre-Enlightenment folk material, and academics could not take too seriously a writer who insisted on telling stories that emphasized plot and character. Yet he was not deterred from his astonishing and beloved work, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series

Subject

Genre/Form

Interview
interviews.
Interviews.

Note

Includes index.

Contents

An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Joel Blocker and Richard Elman -- A Visit to Isaac Bashevis Singer / Reena Sara Ribalow -- He Builds Bridges to the Past / Melvin Maddocks -- An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Harold Flender -- Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Interview / Cyrena Pondrom -- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations in California / David M. Andersen -- I.B. Singer, Storyteller / Herbert R. Lottman -- Yiddish Tradition vs. Jewish Tradition, A Dialogue / Isaac Bashevis Singer and Irving Howe -- Seeing and Blindness: A Conversation with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Grace Farrell -- Isaac Bashevis Singer: "I Walk on Mysteries" / Kenneth Turan -- I.B. Singer, Storyteller / Laurie Colwin -- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist / Donald R. Noble.
Has the Nobel Prize Changed Singer's Life? / Tony Schwartz -- Isaac Bashevis Singer in Texas / Stephen H. Garrin -- Demons by Choice: An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer Parabola -- A Shmues with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Mark S. Golub -- Conversations with the Singers / Grace Farrell -- Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Berkley -- The Passions of a Nobel Laureate: Isaac Bashevis Singer / Tom Teicholz -- I.B. Singer Talks to I.B. Singer about the Movie Yentl / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A Singer of Stories in His Ninth Decade / Linda Matchan -- Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Richard Burgin -- Isaac Bashevis Singer ... Shrugs Off Fame / William Robertson -- Isaac B. Singer on Writing, Life, Love and Death / Valerie Wells.

ISBN

0878055894
9780878055890
0878055908
9780878055906

LCCN

92019281

OCLC

ocm25914071
25914071
SCSB-1968849

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Princeton University Library