Image and Other Stories

The Image is a collection of twenty-two stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple. In these stories Singer reveals the infinite and colorful contrariness of human beings in vernacular language that is startlingly vivid and fresh.. There is no psychologizing in Singer only a continuous astonishment at the improbabilities of which human beings are capable. His demons are not externalized impulses they''re demons. To Singer the great delighter in the senses the world of the senses is an illusion death a mere interruption in an eternal journey. – The New York Times. About the author:Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author of short stories novels essays cultural criticism memoirs and stories for children. His career spanned nearly seven decades of literary production at the center of which was the translation of his work from Yiddish into English which he undertook with various collaborators and editors. Singer published widely during his lifetime with nearly sixty stories appearing in The New Yorker and received numerous awards and prizes including two Newberry Honor Book Awards (1968 & 1969) two National Book Awards (1970 & 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1978). Known for fiction that portrayed 19th-century Polish Jewry as well as supernatural tales that combined Jewish mysticism with demonology Singer was a master storyteller whose sights were set squarely on the tension between human nature and the human spirit.