Description: When the Nobel Prize committee praised his " impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life, " Isaac Bashevis Singer modestly replied, " I never sit down to write to make a better world. I consider myself an entertainer." These four stories -- " Gimpel the Fool, " " Esther Kreindel the Second, " " The Spinoza of Market Street, " and " The Black Wedding" -- radiate Singer's celebrated wit and imagination. Theodore Bikel reads these timeless tales of shtetl life in classic, Yiddish storyteller cadence, giving the author's "inspired madness" a special warmth.
Brief description:
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and memoirs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989.