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THE SECRETS AND POWERS OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

By Jonathan Kirsch

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_secrets_and_powers_of_isaac_bashevis_singer_39101114

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a master of literary legerdemain, which is one reason why “The Magician of Lublin” is a good starting point for a new generation of readers. So I was delighted to discover that the Singer’s longtime publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has re-issued one of Singer’s most beguiling and beloved novels on the 50th anniversary of its first publication. The book bears all of his toolmarks as a storyteller — a certain strange magic but also a sure sense of the world as it is, an open-eyed interest in sexual adventure, an all-embracing curiosity about even the most extravagant varieties of human experience and, not coincidentally, the dangers and doom that it can bring, all conveyed with a sly sense of humor and expressed in the deceptively simple phrases and cadences that are Singer’s glory.

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