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David Neal Millers Fear of Fiction is the first book-length study that begins with the understanding that Singer is truly a Yiddish writer in language and culture. With the exception of a handful of articles, American critical examination of Isaac Bashevis Singers work has been devoted to Singers work in Englishto those pieces he himself has selected for translation. This American Nobel laureate is part of a long tradition of Yiddish literature, and he still writes in that language. Working exclusively with Singers Yiddish textsmany of the pieces discussed here are not available in EnglishMiller examines Singers narrative strategies, his blurring of the distinctions between fiction and reportage. Fear of Fiction captures an intriguing paradox of Singers writing: Singer fictionalizes the factual and historicizes the imaginative. Miller demonstrates that Singer is no inspired innocent, but that this blending of genres is the work of a craftsman who uses genre to mediate between the world and the imagination. The book is enriched by Millers careful and sensitive translations of many illustrative Yiddish passages. Fear of Fiction is both erudite and entertaining. Miller not only examines Singers skillful undermining of our expectations of different genres, but also draws the reader into Singers work as a whole. This book will fascinate both the scholar and the sophisticated reader of Singer.

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title:Fear of Fiction : Narrative Strategies in the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
author:Miller, David Neal.
publisher:State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin:0887060102
print isbn13:9780887060106
ebook isbn13:9780585076348
language:English
subjectSinger, Isaac Bashevis,--1904---Technique, Narration (Rhetoric) , Jews in literature, Fiction--Technique.
publication date:1985
lcc:PJ5129.S49Z82 1985eb
ddc:839/.0933
subject:Singer, Isaac Bashevis,--1904---Technique, Narration (Rhetoric) , Jews in literature, Fiction--Technique.
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Fear of Fiction
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SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Edited by Sarah Blacher Cohen
Page iii
Fear of Fiction
Narrative Strategies in the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer
DAVID NEAL MILLER
State University of New York Press
Albany
Page iv
Previously published excerpts of Fear of Fiction:
a. Portions of Chapter 2 were published as "Fiction as Reportage: Recurrent
Narrative Situations in the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer," The Germanic Review, 58, 3
(Summer 1983), 10614; editorial offices of The Germanic Review are located at Columbia
University, 320 Hamilton Hall, New York, NY 10027.
b. Portions of Chapter 3 were published as "History as Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer's
Pseudonymous Personas," Colloquia Germanica, I (1983), 4555; editorial offices of
Colloquia Germanica are located at The University of Kentucky, Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures, Lexington, KY 40506; editor: Professor Bernd Kratz.
c. Portions of Chapter 4 were published as "Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Interview
as Fictional Genre," Contemporary Literature; editorial offices of Contemporary Literature
are located at the University of Wisconsin, Department of English, Helen C. White Hall,
600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706.
Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany
1985 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press,
State University Plaza, Albany, New York 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Miller, David Neal
Fear of fiction.
(SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture)
Bibliography: p. 155
1. Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904- -Criticism
and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series.
PJ5129.S49Z82 1985 839'.0933 84-16448
ISBN 0-88706-009-9
ISBN 0-88706-010-2 (pbk.)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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For Murray
and the others
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Contents
Preface
vii
1. Fiction as Reportage, I: Examples from the Early Works
1
2. Reportage as Fiction, I: Singer's Pseudonymous Personas
39
3. Fiction as Reportage, II: Recurrent Narrative Situations in the Later Works
71
4. Reportage as Fiction, II: The Interview as Fictional Genre
103
5. Coda
121
Notes
125
Bibliography
155
Index
169

Page vii
Preface
Opening gambits in academic studies of Yiddish literary texts are, of necessity, a bit odd and untestedand all the more so when these texts are by a major author. Whereas the scholar of, say, Proust or Thomas Mann or Faulkner has an all-but-impassible mountain of critical writings to wend his or her way through, the scholar of Yiddish literature faces, as a rule, a critical tabula rasa. There are, to be sure, exceptions, but these are few. One thinks ofperhaps longs forthe heady days after the December Revolution when faculties of Yiddish and, indeed, independent research institutes devoted to the study of Yiddish literature were established in Minsk and Kiev, and of the important, if occasionally tendentious, scholarship produced by members of these institutes1 before they (both members and institutes) were swept away in one or another of Stalin's purges. One thinks, too, of the projects undertaken by the philological sections of the Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut (YIVO) in interbellum Vilna, Warsaw, and New York.2 For the most part, though, Yiddish literatureeven in the period of its remarkable efflorescence in the early decades of this century3was produced, distributed, read, and discussed in the near-absence of formal academic notice.4
Isaac Bashevis Singer would seem to have escaped the fate of his fellow-authors in Yiddish. While he made his mark too late to have been noticed by European literary scholars,5 he hasat least since having come to the attention of an English readership through Saul Bellow's 1953 translation of "Gimpl tam" [Gimpl the Fool] for the
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