David Bergelson's Strange New World (eBook)

Untimeliness and Futurity

Harriet Murav (Autor)

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2019
360 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03694-0 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This book explores the work of David Bergelson, a prolific Yiddish fiction writer and interpreter of Jewish life in early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe.

2. It offers a fresh, more expansive study of Bergelson's works, beyond the 1920s, giving critical attention to his fiction and non-fiction from 1909 though 1946 and placing it within the context of European and Russian literary modernism.

3. Harriet Murav is a senior scholar who has an extensive publishing record. In the past she has often published with Stanfard UP.

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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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.

Autor

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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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction

Part I: Postscripts and Departures

Chapter 1: Congealed Time

Chapter 2: The Aftereffect

Chapter 3: Taking Leave

Part II: Bodies, Things, and Machines

Chapter 4: The Glitch

Chapter 5: Delay, Desire, and Visuality

Part III: A Strange New World

Chapter 6: Judgment Deferred

Chapter 7: The Execution of Judgment

Part IV: Time Cannot Be Mistaken

Chapter 8: Socialism's Frozen Time

Chapter 9: The Gift of Time

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Jews in Eastern Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Jews in Eastern Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Jews in Eastern Europe
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
• Schlagworte: Criticism • David Bergelson • David Bergelson's Strange New World • David Bergelson's Strange New World: David Bergelson's Strange New World • Eastern Europe • eastern european • frozen time • Harriet Murav • Henri Bergson • Henri Bergson, philosophy • Holocaust • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • Literary Analysis • Literary criticism • Literary modernism • Literature • modernism • Philosophy • Revolution • Russia • Shtetl • Socialism • Socialist • Soviet Union • Time • untimely • Yiddish
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03694-1 / 0253036941
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03694-0 / 9780253036940