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David 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.



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"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 Contents

Acknowledgments


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

David Bergelsons Strange New World Untimeliness

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2019
      ISBN13: 9780253036902, 978-0253036902
      ISBN10: 0253036909
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      David 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments


      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

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