Isaac Bashevis Singer, In the World of Chaos : Early Writings

This volume includes a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’searly work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, and arange of critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews. Singer’s early literary career in Warsaw (1925-1935) was cruciallyimportant in laying the building blocks for his great achievements in Jewishand world literature as a storyteller of Polish Jewry.

During this period,Singer worked as a journalist, writer and translator in the main Yiddish centerin Eastern Europe.

However, much of this work remains unavailable inEnglish-language translation.

This volume makes part of Singer’s early fictionand non-fiction available for scholarship, teaching, and a general readershipfor the first time.