The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov : : A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday / / ed. by Klavdia Smola, Maxim D. Shrayer, Roman Katsman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Ermolin, Evgeny,; Garzonio, Stefano,; Grinberg, Marat,; Horowitz, Brian,; Katsis, Leonid,; Katsman, Roman,; Lanin, Boris,; Osborne, Monica,; Probstein, Ian,; Ranchin, Andrei,; Rubenstein, Joshua,; Shrayer, Maxim D.,; Shrayer-Petrov, David,; Smola, Klavdia,; Smola, Oleg,
• HerausgeberIn: Katsman, Roman,; Shrayer, Maxim D.,; Smola, Klavdia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)

This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov—poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov’s eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer’s emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. By focusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov’s multifaceted and eventful literary career, the volume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewish poetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history. In addition to fifteen essays and an extensive interview with Shrayer-Petrov, the volume features a detailed bibliography and a pictorial biography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Spelling of Names -- PART ONE David Shrayer-Petrov: Life, Art, and Thought -- David Shrayer-Petrov, Russian-Jewish Writer -- The Nonconformist Poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Exilic Voices -- PART TWO Studies of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetry -- Drums of Fate: David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetics of Fractured Wholeness -- Voice of Destiny: Notes in the Margins of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poems -- Italy in the Poetry of David Shrayer-Petrov -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poem “Friend’s Illness”: An Approach to Reading -- David Shrayer-Petrov and Genrikh Sapgir: Feasts of Friendship -- PART THREE David Shrayer-Petrov’s Refusenik Novels -- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Aliyah Novels and the Epistemology of the Jewish-Soviet Cultural Revival -- Doctor Levitin by David Shrayer-Petrov and the Theme of Jewish Revenge -- On Literary Tradition and Literary Authority in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin -- Leaving Home Is for the Brave: A Reading of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin -- PART FOUR Approaches to David Shrayer-Petrov’s Prose -- Who is Grifanov? David Shrayer-Petrov’s Dialogue with Yury Trifonov -- The Birth of the Novel from the Spirit of Contradiction: The Jewish Theologeme in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novel-Fantella Yudin’s Redemption -- To Kill the Leader: The Morphology of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novella “Dinner with Stalin” -- Post Scriptum -- “Each writer has his or her own Jewish secret. . . .”: A Conversation in Three Parts* Conducted on the Occasion of the Publication of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Collection Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) -- David Shrayer-Petrov: A Pictorial Biography -- David Shrayer-Petrov (Давид Шраер-Петров): A Bibliography of Works -- Index of Names and Places -- Contributors