Description
Book SynopsisDavid Bergelson's Strange New World explores the work of one of the most highly regarded Yiddish writers of the 20th and his untimely world of characters who live ahead and behind the times in the Eastern European shtetl.
Trade Review"Harriet Murav treats Bergelson with the care and sincerity that literary critics have shown other important writers. This is a masterpiece of literary scholarship that will be sure to transform not only how people read Bergelson and who chooses to read Bergelson, but how readers engage with the entire concept of modernism itself."—David Shneer, author of Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
Part I: Postscripts and Departures
Chapter 1: Congealed Time
Chapter 2: The Aftereffect
Chapter 3: Taking Leave
Part II: Bodies, Things, and Machines
Chapter 4: The Glitch
Chapter 5: Delay, Desire, and Visuality
Part III: A Strange New World
Chapter 6: Judgment Deferred
Chapter 7: The Execution of Judgment
Part IV: Time Cannot Be Mistaken
Chapter 8: Socialism's Frozen Time
Chapter 9: The Gift of Time
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
