David Bergelson's Strange New World

Untimeliness and Futurity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Harriet Murav

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-02-01
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt699 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJews of Eastern Europe
Antal sidor360
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253036902
UtmärkelserCommended for Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize 2020 (United States)

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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