Even if I married a whole harem of women I’d still act like a bachelor
Elaine Showalter: Isaac Bashevis Singer, 17 September 1998
Shadows on the Hudson
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman.
Hamish Hamilton, 560 pp., £16.99, June 1998,0 241 13940 6 Show More
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman.
Hamish Hamilton, 560 pp., £16.99, June 1998,
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life
by Janice Hadda.
Oxford, 254 pp., £22.50, February 1998,0 19 508420 9 Show More
by Janice Hadda.
Oxford, 254 pp., £22.50, February 1998,
“... unpromising to bother with? Singer the man is very much at the centre of the dispute; and, as Janice Hadda reveals in her fascinating biography, he was not by any means a leprechaun. A professor of Yiddish literature, a psychoanalyst and a very good writer, she shows that Singer, far from being the folksy laureate of shtetl life, was a ... ”