What are double voices and implied author

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What are "double voices " and " implied author

Please tell the idea of the story Gimple the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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double voices, i.e., the “true voice” and the “false voice”, we need to distinguish them and contrive to tell what is the real meaning of the “implied author”.

The speaker in narrative is the author or, more specifically, the implied author, which Booth also calls an author's "second self"

''Gimpel the Fool,'' which first appeared in English translation in a 1953 edition of the Partisan Review, is considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable and representative works of short fiction. Singer wrote the story, as he did most of his early works, in Yiddish, and its Jewish themes of the individual's search for faith and guidance in a cruel world are explored in a parable form with exaggerated details common to folktales. Noted Jewish-American writer Saul Bellow translated the story into English, as he did many of Singer's early works, thus introducing him to a wide audience for the first time, even though Singer