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Bashevis Singer said: ‘Everyone will think the success is because of the translator and not because I am a great writer,’ and he decided to become the sole ruler of his translations.”īellow was born in 1915 in Canada to parents who had immigrated there from Saint Petersburg, Russia. “The trigger,” Galay says, “was when I discovered that Bashevis Singer’s first story, ‘Gimpel the Fool,’ was translated into English by Saul Bellow, who was already the big star in American literature at the time.
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In many ways, is a natural follow-up to Galay’s previous documentary, which was about the relationships between Isaac Bashevis Singer – another Jewish-American literary titan and Nobel laureate – and the group of women he employed as Yiddish-to-English translators. The film was produced with the support of the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund and the Avi Chai Foundation, and is being released after six years of intensive work. He said something like: ‘He wouldn’t be the first guy whose companionship I’d seek out in the afterlife.’”Īsaf Galay in Tel Aviv, this month. I apparently got the last interview that Philip Roth ever gave.”Īnd what was the most interesting thing Roth said about Saul Bellow? “He said that he missed arguing with him at the table, but that Bellow was not a good friend. Come back here and do a real film about me.’ But that, of course, didn’t happen, and a year later he died. “And after he spoke about Bellow he started telling me jokes in Yiddish – jokes that of course I couldn’t put in the film – and he said, ‘Let’s meet again. “I went to his house in Connecticut, and unlike other writers who mainly talk about themselves, Roth really talked about Bellow, and every sentence of his is a work of art, verbal magic,” Galay recounts. At one point, he also stole Roth’s girlfriend, Susan Glassman, and married her.
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After a long series of pleading emails that were carefully crafted to straddle the fine line between erudition and groveling, Philip Roth consented to grant Asaf Galay 40 minutes in which he would talk about Saul Bellow, the man who was his spiritual mentor.