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David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity

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Availability:In StockContributor:Harriet MuravSeries:Jews in Eastern EuropePublish date:2019-02-01Pages:360
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253036919ISBN-10:253036917UPC:9780253036919Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Jewish Studies, ModernBook Topic:Eastern, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCWFCKTSMV

David Bergelson (1884-1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253036919ISBN-10:253036917UPC:9780253036919Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Jewish Studies, ModernBook Topic:Eastern, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCWFCKTSMV

Harriet Murav is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique and translator (with Sasha Senderovich) of David Bergelson's 1929 novel Judgment.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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