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A brilliant comparatist, Paloff articulates a new theory of genre of literature of the camps and besieged cities. He teaches us to abandon our Anglo-American obsession with the fact vs. fiction divide: only fictionalization can convey an experiential reality that inflicts such epistemological violence on the subject. Urgent reading for a world in which the camps, invisibly, persist. -- Emily Van Buskirk, author of <i>Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature</i> Navigating challenging terrain with intellectual rigor and ethical responsibility, Worlds Apart points to new ways of reading works that capture the truths of life in extremis through fictional means. Sensitive to norms, genres, and cultural contexts, the book reframes fundamental questions about representation and representability. Paloff’s lightly worn erudition, unerring sense for just the right question, and polemical verve are spellbinding. Not a dull moment in this bold and utterly original book. -- Edyta M. Bojanowska, author of <i>A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada</i>

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Benjamin Paloff is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature at the University of Michigan. His books include Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (2016) and The Politics: Poems (2011), and he has translated many works from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish.

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