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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Grinberg, Marat,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (486 p.)

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, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Contents -- Introduction: Poet-Interpreter/Translator-Scribe -- Part One: Historiography -- Part Two: Polemics -- Part Three: Intertexts -- Conclusion: The Reader in Perpetuity -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Selective Subjects and Terms