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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories: One Night In Brazil to The Death Of Methuselah

Edited by Ilan Stavans

“It’s remarkable how naturally Singer fits into the American literary tradition.” — The New Yorker

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In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to “The Jew from Babylon,” a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as “Brother Beetle” and “There are No Coincidences” from the 1960s, the works collected in this Library of America volume, the third of three, serve as a retrospective view of Singer’s achievement as a storyteller.

Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah also contains ten stories published in English translation for the first time, selected from the extensive collection of Singer’s papers at the University of Texas. Ranging from “Between Shadows,” an evocative, naturalistic sketch set in Warsaw, to the bittersweet melodrama “Morris and Timma,” to the beguiling fable “Hershele and Hanele, or The Power of a Dream.” These stories enrich our understanding of Singer as a writer. The volume also includes “The Bird,” “My Adventures as an Idealist,” “and “Exes,” stories published in magazines that were not included in any of Singer’s collections. Complementing the seventy-eight stories gathered here is the introduction to Gifts (1985), a version of a lecture Singer had delivered since the early 1960s—sometimes called “Why I Write as I Do”—which illuminates his biography, philosophical outlook, and literary aims.

Ilan Stavans, volume editor, is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language and the editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda and The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

This volume is available for adoption in the Guardian of American Letters Fund.
Table of Contents

Old Love
One Night in Brazil
Yochna and Shmelke
Two
The Psychic Journey
Elka and Meier
A Party in Miami Beach
Two Weddings and One Divorce
A Cage for Satan
Brother Beetle
The Boy Knows the Truth
There Are No Coincidences
Not for the Sabbath
The Safe Deposit
The Betrayer of Israel
Tanhum
The Manuscript
The Power of Darkness
The Bus

from The Collected Stories
Author’s Note
A Night in the Poorhouse
Escape from Civilization
Vanvild Cava
The Reencounter
Moon and Madness

The Image and Other Stories
Advice
One Day of Happiness
The Bond
The Interview
The Divorce
Strong as Death is Love
Why Heisherick Was Born
The Enemy
Remnants
On the Way to the Poorhouse
Loshikl
The Pocket Remembered
The Secret
A Nest Egg for Paradise
The Conference
Miracles
The Litigants
A Telephone Call on Yom Kippur
Strangers
The Mistake
Confused
The Image

from Gifts
Author’s Introduction
The Trap
The Smuggler
Gifts

from The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
The Jew from Babylon
The House Friend
Burial at Sea
The Recluse
Disguised
The Accuser and the Accused
A Peephole in the Gate
The Bitter Truth
The Impresario
Logarithms
Runners to Nowhere
The Missing Line
The Hotel
Dazzled
Sabbath in Gehenna
The Last Gaze
The Death of Methuselah

Uncollected Stories
The Bird
My Adventures as an Idealist
Exes
Between Shadows
Hershele and Hanele, or the Power of a Dream
Pity
The Angry Man
The Mathematician
The Painting
The Building Project
Morris and Timna
Two
Eulogy to a Shoelace

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