David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity

Awards:   Commended for Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize 2020 Commended for Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize 2020 (United States)
Author:   Harriet Murav
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253036919


Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 February 2019
Format:   Paperback
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David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity


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  • Commended for Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize 2020
  • Commended for Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize 2020 (United States)

Overview

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 familiar worlds crumbled around them. In this contemporary assessment of Bergelson and his fiction, Harriet Murav focuses on untimeliness, anachronism, and warped temporality as an emotional, sensory, existential, and historical background to Bergleson's work and world. Murav grapples with the great modern theorists of time and memory, especially Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, to present Bergelson as an integral part of the philosophical and artistic experiments, political and technological changes, and cultural context of Russian and Yiddish modernism that marked his age. As a comparative and interdisciplinary study of Yiddish literature and Jewish culture, this work adds a new, ethnic dimension to understandings of the turbulent birth of modernism.

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Author:   Harriet Murav
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9780253036919


ISBN 10:   0253036917
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself.--David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930


""Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself.""—David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930


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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.

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