"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left"
Subtitle: the poetics of Boris Slutsky
By: Marat Grinberg
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brighton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781934843734
Subjects: Russian poetry; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Jewish authors; Russian literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-[451] and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe; title: Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation; title: The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion; title: Pt. 1. Historiography; title: The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars"; title: The poet-historian: transplantation added; title: A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53; title: Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse; title: The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics; title: Pt. 2. Polemics; title: Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies; title: On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls; title: Conversing about god: between the old and the new; title: Pt. 3. Intertexts; title: Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff; title: Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov; title: "leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii; title: "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii; title: the final myth: Pushkin; title: conclusion: the reader in perpetuity.