Gimpel the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Gimpel the Fool

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow

Narrator: Theodore Bikel

Unabridged: 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2014

Synopsis

Widely considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable works of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool" was originally written in Yiddish. It was later translated into English by Saul Bellow and appeared in the 1953 edition of Partisan Review. The story, a parable, tells of a foolish, unlucky baker named Gimpel, who is constantly tricked and heckled by other villagers. His follies ultimately reveal a moral lesson.

About Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children’s books, and memoirs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989.

About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, Bellow served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota and was chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

About Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel (1924–2015) was an award-winning stage and screen actor, an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice won him critical acclaim. Some of his credits include The Defiant Ones, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and Fiddler on the Roof.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on January 14, 2023

Good story. You can hear the voice in the background of many Am. television sitcoms.......more

Goodreads review by gretl on August 18, 2007

i liked it so much i named my dog after the author.......more

Goodreads review by Jigar on April 27, 2017

The Little Shoemakers, with its wholesomeness, remains one of the finest Singer stories I have read. It has the ease and majesty of a classic novel, and it reaches, not for an immediate effect in its closure, but for an after-effect that soothes the heart. You feel content after reading it, and you......more

Quotes

“Sparkling and triumphant, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony, and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time.”

Washington Post Book World, praise for the author

“Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.”

New Republic, praise for the author

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