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Singer’s Last Word

John Bayley, 24 October 1991

Scum 
by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Rosaline DukalskySchwartz.
Cape, 224 pp., £13.99, October 1991, 0 224 03200 3Show More
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“... A story no doubt originating in Norway goes over the ground about persons of different nationality required to write an essay on elephants. The Englishman of course writes about hunting them, the French about their love-life, the Swede about elephantine manners and etiquette, the Dane about the ivory business. The Norwegian produces an essay on Norway and Norwegians ...”

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