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“I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky - Hardcover

Book 2 of 7: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

Grinberg, Marat

 
9781644692769: “I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky

Synopsis

Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg’s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky’s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, daringly fusing biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.

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About the Author

Marat Grinberg (PhD University of Chicago, 2006) is Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His recent essays include “’The Problem of Evil’: an Exchange with Tony Judt” (The New York Review of Books, 2008); “’All the Young Poets have Become Old Jews’: Boris Slutsky’s Russian Jewish Canon” (East European Jewish Affairs, 2007) and “The Midrash from Joseph: ‘Isaac and Abraham’ as Brodsky’s Ur-Text” in Poetics. Self. Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone (Bloomington, Slavica, 2007).

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