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Ladataan... Selected Short Stories of Isaac Bashevis SingerTekijä: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Singer's use of language and powers of description are often breathtaking, although, as he wrote in Yiddish, readers are dependent on the quality of the translations. At any rate, here is a deft and telling, if hardly cheery, character description that has stayed with me, from the short story, "The Wife Killer":
Some years passed and he didn't remarry. Perhaps he didn't want to, perhaps there was no suitable opportunity; anyway, he remained a widower. Women gloated over this. He became even stingier than before, and so unkempt that it was positively disgusting. He ate a bit of meat on Saturday: scraps or derma. All week he ate dry food. He baked his own bread of corn and bran. He didn't buy wood. Instead, he went out at night with a sack, to pick up the chips near the bakery. He had two deep pockets and whatever he saw, he put into them: bones, bark, string, shards. He hid all these in his attic. He piled heaps of stuff as high as the roof. "Every little thing comes in handy," he used to say. He was a scholar in the bargain, and could quote Scripture on every occasion, though as a rule he talked little. ( )