Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth

Author:Philip Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Literary, Non-Fiction, Criticism, Writing & Grammar, Essays & Letters
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Isaac Bashevis Singer

[1976]

Some months after I first read Bruno Schulz and decided to include him in the Penguin series “Writers from the Other Europe,” I learned that when his autobiographical novel, The Street of Crocodiles, appeared in English fourteen years ago, it had been reviewed and praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Since Schulz and Singer were born in Poland of Jewish parents within twelve years of each other—Schulz in 1892 in the provincial Galician city of Drohobycz, Singer in Radzymin, near Warsaw, in 1904—I telephoned Singer, whom I had met socially once or twice, and asked if we might get together to talk about Schulz and about what life had been like for a Jewish writer in Poland during the decades when they were both coming of age there as artists. Our meeting took place in Singer’s Manhattan apartment at the end of November 1976.

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