This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov—poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov's eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer's emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. By focusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov's multifaceted and eventful literary career, the volume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewish poetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history. In addition to fifteen essays and an extensive interview with Shrayer-Petrov, the volume features a detailed bibliography and a pictorial biography.
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Celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov - poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and translator (and medical doctor and researcher). Published in the year of his 85th birthday, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives.
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“This fascinating collection provides many insights into one of the finest poets and an outstanding writer, David Shrayer-Petrov, who made a significant contribution to Russian and Jewish cultures. This multi-facing study explores many topics—from Shrayer-Petrov’s life, his variety of themes, genres, and styles to textual and cultural sources of his poems, short stories, and novels. Many essays illuminate the brilliant mind and the innovations of David Shrayer-Petrov. The bibliography compiled by his son Maxim D. Shrayer is a vital contribution to this book and helps to appreciate the outstanding achievements this poet, writer and translator. The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov the best thing written about the writer and an essential reading for all who are not indifferent to literature and culture.”—Valentina Polukhina, University of Keele; author of Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time and Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries
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© Maxim D. Shrayer, Klavdia Smola, Roman Katsman

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ISBN
9781644695265
Publisert
2021-02-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Academic Studies Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
458

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Roman Katsman was born in the USSR and has lived in Israel since 1990. He is a Professor in theDepartment of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. Katsman is the author of numberof books and articles about Hebrew and Russian literature, particularly about Jewish-Russian andRussian-Israeli literature and thought. He has worked on the theoretical problems of mythopoesis, chaos,nonverbal communication, sincerity, alternative history, and humor. His most recent books, ElusiveReality: A Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature (1920-2020), (2020, in Russian) and Nostalgiafor a Foreign Land (2016, in English), examine the Russian-language literature in Israel. Other majorpublication include Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew(2018), Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (2013), At theOther End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature (2008), Poeticsof Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and SlavicLiterature (2005), The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon (2002) andothers.