David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity

by Harriet Murav

Book Overview

David Bergelson (1884-1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their familiar worlds crumbled around them. In this contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253036917
• ISBN13: 9780253036919
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher