Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer.

From: National Review | Date: April 25, 1986| Author: McDonnell, Thomas P. | Copyright information

THERE IS no writer who by his mere existence more thoroughly exposes the emptiness of our contemporary literary culture than Isaac Bashevis Singer. Although Singer is an ardent Zionist and an author who has written in Yiddish almost exclusively, there is no one writing today--or, for that matter, in the last half-century--who has appealed so universally to the humanistic art of good story-telling. He is a true internationalist and a true humanist, as is luminously evident in this...

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