Praise for Isaac Bashevis Singer:
"Singer's stories have plots that unravel not because they are old-fashioned–they are mostly originals and have few recognizable modes other than their own–but because they contain the whole human world of affliction, error, quagmire, pain, calamity, catastrophe, woe: things happen; life is an ambush, a snare; one's fate can never be predicted. His driven, mercurial processions of predicaments and transmogrifications are limitless, a cornucopia of invention."
–Cynthia Ozick
"[Singer] is a spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end."
–Jean Stafford, The New Republic
"A peerless storyteller, Singer restores the sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence."
–David Boroff, Saturday Review
"Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world."
–Irving Howe, The New Republic
"Extraordinarily beautiful... It's the integrity of the human imagination that Singer conveys so beautifully."
–Alfred Kazin, The New Leader
"[Singer's]... impassioned narrative art... with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life."
–The Nobel Prize Committee, 1978