The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art) - Softcover

Werman, Golda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815604025 ISBN 13: 9780815604020

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1996

Synopsis

With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture of worldwide Yiddish literature. The collection includes two short stories and a novella, which offer a taste of Bergelson's elegiac prose style.

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From the Back Cover:

The writings of David Bergelson - virtually unknown to readers in the United States - are now available in this exciting collection Composed of two short stories and a novella, this volume brings to life Bergelson's rich, elegiac prose. Golda Werman's highly literate translation perfectly captures his elusive literary style. Bergelson's writings evoke the declining world of small-town Eastern European Jews. His world captures the dreariness of the uncommitted life. His characters are cast adrift in a society whose traditions are coming unhinged by powerful modernist forces. In her Introduction Werman offers readers an engaging and tragic portrait of Bergelson, who was arrested on orders from Stalin and died in a prison camp in 1952.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0815604025
• ISBN 13: 9780815604020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192