The Mystical Storytelling of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Prooftexts, 38.1 (2020), 94-138
Isaac Bashevis Singer's work has often been identified with demons, but his use of the Yeytser-hore as narrator may be more than a simple preoccupation with the realm of evil. Rather than merely portraying evil in literature, Singer was working within a mystical tradition that harnessed what it saw as the powers of evil to do good in the world. . .
