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Henry Miller said, "The wonderful, wonderful world, a terrible and beautiful world of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bless the name! A writer to drive one crazy if one has the ear for the underlying melody, the meaning behind the meaning..afraid of nothing...as for sex, always full bodied like a rich wine, sometimes with love, sometimes without, but never hidden or disguised..above all there is love, a bigger, broader love than we are accustomed to reading about in books."

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow’s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre–World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer’s unforgettable prose.