David Bergelson's Strange New World

David Bergelson's Strange New World
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780253036926
ISBN-13 : 0253036925
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Book Synopsis David Bergelson's Strange New World by : Harriet Murav

Download or read book David Bergelson's Strange New World written by Harriet Murav and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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