Nostalgia for a Foreign Land Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel
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Roman Katsman is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is author of six books and numerous articles on Hebrew and Russian literatures, and Jewish-Russian literature and thought. His recent interests are concerned with laughter in S.Y. Agnon's works and the contemporary Russian intellectual literature."Roman Katsman’s pioneering <i>Nostalgia for a Foreign Land</i> addresses one of the most impressive, unusual and intriguing literary phenomena in Russian since 1991: Russian-language prose in Israel. While aspiring to its synthetic study, the book covers a broad range of writers from an immensely popular contemporary fiction writer to a leading member of an experimental avant-garde group. This is an excellent, illuminating and cogent work; its in-depth literary analysis is rich in detail. The book makes no attempt to embellish the literary works it analyzes; their unquestionable aesthetic achievements and sometimes problematic ideologies are examined with attention and unfailing honesty. Within broader a context, this is a very significant contribution to the understanding of Jewish literature in Russian, as well as contemporary Jewish literary writing.”
- Dennis Sobolev, University of Haifa,