A Russian Immigrant : : Three Novellas / / Maxim D. Shrayer.
No longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Un...
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Shrayer, Maxim D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Russian Immigrant : Three Novellas / Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (140 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bohemian Spring -- Brotherly Love -- Borscht Belt -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Praise for A Russian Immigrant restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star No longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Unresolved feelings about his Jewish (and American) present and his Russian (and Soviet) past prevent Reznikov from easily putting down roots in his new country. A visit to a decaying summer resort in the Catskills, now populated by Jewish ghosts of Soviet history, which include a famous émigré writer, reveals to Reznikov that he, too, is a prisoner of his past. An expedition to Prague in search of clues for an elusive Jewish writer's biography exposes Reznikov's own inability to move on. A chance reunion with a former Russian lover, now also an immigrant living in an affluent part of Connecticut, unearths memories of Reznikov's last Soviet summer while reanimating many contradictors of a mixed, Jewish-Russian marriage.Told both linearly and non-linearly, with elements of suspense, mystery and crime, these three interconnected novellas gradually reveal many layers of the characters' Russian, Jewish, and Soviet identities. Vectors of love and desire, nostalgia and amnesia, violence and forgiveness, politics and aesthetics guide Shrayer's immigrant characters while also disorienting them in their new American lives. Set in Providence, New Haven and Boston, but also in places of the main character's pilgrimages such as Estonia and Bohemia, Shrayer's book weaves together a literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Immigrants United States Fiction. Jews, Russian United States Fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Anti-Semitism. Diaspora. Jewish-American literature. Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe. Russia and the former USSR. exile. fiction. immigrants. literary fiction. modern Jewish literature. modern fiction. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110688191 print 9781644690369 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690376?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644690376 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644690376/original |
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