SOURCE: "Voices of Ambivalence in Sholem Aleichem's Monologues," in Prooftexts, Vol. 1, No. 2, May, 1981, pp. 158-71.
In the following essay, Wirth-Nesher discusses the paradoxical nature of the monologue form in Aleichem's short fiction.
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