David Bergelson's Strange New World

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.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroductionPart I: Postscripts and DeparturesChapter 1: Congealed TimeChapter 2: The AftereffectChapter 3: Taking LeavePart II: Bodies, Things, and MachinesChapter 4: The GlitchChapter 5: Delay, Desire, and VisualityPart III: A Strange New WorldChapter 6: Judgment Deferred Chapter 7: The Execution of JudgmentPart IV: Time Cannot Be MistakenChapter 8: Socialism's Frozen TimeChapter 9: The Gift of TimeConclusionBibliographyIndex

"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