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David Bergelson's Strange New World

David Bergelson's Strange New World

Untimeliness and Futurity
Jews in Eastern Europe

von: Harriet Murav

24,99 €

Verlag: Indiana University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 01.02.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9780253036940
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 360

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Titelbeschreibung

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<p>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.</p>
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Titelkurzbeschreibung

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<p><em>David Bergelson's Strange New World</em> explores the work of one of the most highly regarded Yiddish writers of the 20th and his untimely world of characters who live ahead and behind the times in the Eastern European shtetl.</p>
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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<p>Acknowledgments</p>
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<p>Note on Transliteration and Translation</p>
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<p>Introduction</p>
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<p>Part I: Postscripts and Departures</p>
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<p>Chapter 1: Congealed Time</p>
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<p>Chapter 2: The Aftereffect</p>
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<p>Chapter 3: Taking Leave</p>
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<p>Part II: Bodies, Things, and Machines</p>
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<p>Chapter 4: The Glitch</p>
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<p>Chapter 5: Delay, Desire, and Visuality</p>
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<p>Part III: A Strange New World</p>
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<p>Chapter 6: Judgment Deferred </p>
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<p>Chapter 7: The Execution of Judgment</p>
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<p>Part IV: Time Cannot Be Mistaken</p>
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<p>Chapter 8: Socialism's Frozen Time</p>
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<p>Chapter 9: The Gift of Time</p>
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<p>Conclusion</p>
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<p>Bibliography</p>
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<p>Index</p>
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Autorenportrait

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<p>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 <i>Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels &amp; the Poetics of Cultural Critique</i> and translator (with Sasha Senderovich) of David Bergelson's 1929 novel <i>Judgment</i>.</p>
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Unpublished endorsement

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<p>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.</p>
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US