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Gimpel the Fool
story by Singer
Also known as: āGimpl tamā
Gimpel the Fool, short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published in 1945 in Yiddish as āGimpl tam.ā A translation by Saul Bellow published in Partisan Review in 1953 introduced a large audience of English-speaking readers to Singerās fiction. The story was later published in Singerās collection Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957). Set in a bygone era in an eastern European shtetl, the tale presents the title character, a gullible man who responds to a lifetime of betrayal, heckling, and deception with childlike acceptance and complete faith.
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