Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition Singer Isaac Bashevis
Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition Singer Isaac Bashevis A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most…
Specifikacia Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition Singer Isaac Bashevis
Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition Singer Isaac Bashevis
A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story--one of the most influential of the 20th century--about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. With illustrations by Liana Finck and an afterword by David Stromberg.Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpl tam" was published on March 30, 1945, in the obscure Yiddish-language journal Idisher kempfer, about a month before the Nazi surrender. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by writer and scholar David Stromberg, and the 1953 translation by fellow Nobel laureate Saul Bellow.
A story of bullying and the potential for revenge, it tells the deathbed confession of an orphaned