Why Women Fall in Love With Demons: What Isaac Bashevis Singer Knew About Fantasy and Desire (opens in new tab)

There are stories you summarize at your peril. This is one of them. Because if you reduce “Taibele and Her Demon” to a lonely woman is tricked by a man pretending to be a demon,you have described the skeleton and misplaced the body. The tale is much odder, sadder, funnier, and morally slipperier than that. And, as with much of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the comedy comes wearing the clothes of metaphysics. First, the story itself.