A.Singer's Magic Box

Author: (American) Singer (Singer, I.)
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: "The heavens and the earth have destroyed everything that once existed, turning it into dust. Only those who dream in their waking hours, the lucid dreamers, can call back the phantom of the past through the sparse net." This is a quote from the Nobel Prize acceptance speech for Isaac Singer by the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Lars Gyllensten, in 1978. Isaac Singer, this "great fabulist and master of the short story," is also hailed as the "contemporary master of storytelling." It is he who wrote such renowned short stories as "Gimpel the Fool" and "Spinoza of Market Street," saving an ancient culture on the brink of decline and preserving the traditions of Eastern European Jewry that were about to vanish. Through his "passionate narrative art," he reflects and portrays the "universal plight of humanity."