He published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in 1935, in Yiddish, under the pen name of “Yitzchok Bashevis,” a nom de plume derived from his mother’s first name. Haunted by his own sense of survivor’s guilt, the author wrote out of a personal argument with God.Īs a Protean and prolific writer, with shifting identities, he effectively named himself. With an ironic voice of protest, his earthy, poetic style portrays characters seeking love and truth-in spite of the grand and petty injustices of the world. He concentrated his special genius, however, in a plenitude of short stories. He also published memoirs and children’s books. Singer created historical sagas about the Jews in Poland, from premodern times through the Holocaust. The first Yiddish author to win a Nobel Prize and the only established American writer who wrote in Yiddish, I. Why does evil exist? That is the question Isaac Bashevis Singer could not stop asking.
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