RT Book
T1 The parallel universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: a collection published on the occasion of the writer's 85th birthday
A2 Šraer-Petrov, David Petrovič 1936-2024
A2 Katsman, Roman 1969-
A2 Shrayer, Maxim D. 1967-
A2 Smola, Klavdia 1974-
LA English
PP Boston, MA
PB Academic Studies Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1750387328
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Spelling of Names -- PART ONE David Shrayer-Petrov: Life, Art, and Thought -- David Shrayer-Petrov, Russian-Jewish Writer -- The Nonconformist Poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Exilic Voices -- PART TWO Studies of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetry -- Drums of Fate: David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetics of Fractured Wholeness -- Voice of Destiny: Notes in the Margins of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poems -- Italy in the Poetry of David Shrayer-Petrov -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poem “Friend’s Illness”: An Approach to Reading -- David Shrayer-Petrov and Genrikh Sapgir: Feasts of Friendship -- PART THREE David Shrayer-Petrov’s Refusenik Novels -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Aliyah Novels and the Epistemology of the Jewish-Soviet Cultural Revival -- Doctor Levitin by David Shrayer-Petrov and the Theme of Jewish Revenge -- On Literary Tradition and Literary Authority in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin -- Leaving Home Is for the Brave: A Reading of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin -- PART FOUR Approaches to David Shrayer-Petrov’s Prose -- Who is Grifanov? David Shrayer-Petrov’s Dialogue with Yury Trifonov -- The Birth of the Novel from the Spirit of Contradiction: The Jewish Theologeme in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novel-Fantella Yudin’s Redemption -- To Kill the Leader: The Morphology of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novella “Dinner with Stalin” -- Post Scriptum -- “Each writer has his or her own Jewish secret. . . .”: A Conversation in Three Parts* Conducted on the Occasion of the Publication of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Collection Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) -- David Shrayer-Petrov: A Pictorial Biography -- David Shrayer-Petrov (Давид Шраер-Петров): A Bibliography of Works -- Index of Names and Places -- Contributors
AB 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 therefusenik 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 afterthe writer’s emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials andinvestigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. Byfocusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov’s multifaceted and eventful literary career, thevolume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewishpoetics, 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 pictorialbiography
OP 300
CN PG3549.S537
SN 9781644695289
K1 Russian Literature : Jewish authors : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 Russian Literature : Jewish authors : 21st century : History and criticism
K1 Russian Literature : United States : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 Russian Literature : United States : 21st century : History and criticism
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
K1 David Shrayer-Petrov
K1 Doctor Levitin
K1 Russian and Soviet culture and history
K1 Russian literature
K1 emigre literature
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1515/9781644695289