![]() The surface texture of ''The Magician'' (which I find its most fascinating and admirable accomplishment) is concerned with that picaresque underworld in nineteenth-century Poland which has served Sholem Asch in ''Mottke the ''Satan in Goray,'' an earlier novelette of his, seemed at times perilously close to coming to pieces in a series of separate tales. He is gifted with the hypnotic power of the born storyteller his forte is In ''Gimpel,'' the passing image of a cow flying over the rooftops could have originated equally in a picture by Chagall or in a fairy tale. His imagination is as romantic as Marc Chagall's and he is as intrigued as the painter is by the possibility of the suspension of the laws of space, time and gravitation. Singer's mastery is in the depiction of the grotesque side of humanity. Hard and bright in the best modern manner, and, fortunately, a good deal of his original power survives in English. His prose, at least in the Yiddish original, is stripped, All of Singer's work is characterized by a surprising nimbleness of wit. ![]() The Fool'' in particular has won the admiration of a sizable circle of discriminating readers. Saac Bashevis Singer's earlier works in translation from the Yiddish have made him an enviable reputation in this country. Yasha Escaped Into a Prison By MILTON HINDUS ![]()
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