The main character of this story claims that he is "no weakling" and if he "slapped someone he'd see all the way to Cracow."
The main character of this story claims that he is "no weakling" and if he "slapped someone he'd see all the way to Cracow." Another character in this story first appears barefoot, pinning clothes to a line in her clay house, and shortly after demands a fifty-guilder dowry be paid to her. In this story, Rietze tells the protagonist that his father and mother have come back from thedead. This story's main character is told that a "thick mire" exists in place of God in a vision and later has a dream in which he sees his wife in a shroud. The protagonist becomes a wandering storyteller at the end of this story, which was published in Partisan Review in a translation by Saul Bellow. After Elka reveals that all six of her children are illegitimate, this story's title character is visited by the "Spirit of Evil," who convinces him to put urine in the town's bread. For 10 points, the residents of Frampol often take advantage of the title baker in what short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer?
The main character of this story claims that he is "no weakling" and if he "slapped someone he'd see all the way to Cracow."
 "Gimpel the Fool"