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- catalog abstract "Isaac Bashevis Singer loved to give interviews. He was famous for encouraging interruptions of the solitary task of writing. These twenty-four welcomed interruptions are representative of the many he allowed over a twenty-five-year period. Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman. In these talks Singer discusses the nature of his writing, its ethnic roots, his demonology, the importance of free will, and the place of storytelling in human life. The interviews with Singer reveal both his impish sense of humor and a determination that sustained him through many years of limited acclaim and comparative neglect by critics. Yiddishists often faulted him for refusing to use his talent as a force for change in the world, Jewish readers often deplored his use of pre-Enlightenment folk material, and academics could not take too seriously a writer who insisted on telling stories that emphasized plot and character. Yet he was not deterred from his astonishing and beloved work, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.".
- catalog contributor b3994122.
- catalog contributor b3994123.
- catalog contributor b3994124.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Isaac Bashevis Singer loved to give interviews. He was famous for encouraging interruptions of the solitary task of writing. These twenty-four welcomed interruptions are representative of the many he allowed over a twenty-five-year period. Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman. In these talks Singer discusses the nature of his writing, its ethnic roots, his demonology, the importance of free will, and the place of storytelling in human life. The interviews with Singer reveal both his impish sense of humor and a determination that sustained him through many years of limited acclaim and comparative neglect by critics. Yiddishists often faulted him for refusing to use his talent as a force for change in the world, Jewish readers often deplored his use of pre-Enlightenment folk material, and academics could not take too seriously a writer who insisted on telling stories that emphasized plot and character. Yet he was not deterred from his astonishing and beloved work, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 259 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Isaac Bashevis Singer.".
- catalog identifier "0878055894 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0878055908 (paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Isaac Bashevis Singer.".
- catalog isPartOf "Literary conversations series".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog relation "Isaac Bashevis Singer.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "839/.0933 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, Yiddish United States Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Jews United States Interviews.".
- catalog subject "PJ5129.S49 Z463 1992".
- catalog subject "Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 Interviews.".
- catalog title "Isaac Bashevis Singer : conversations / edited by Grace Farrell.".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".