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  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

    Edited by Sasha Senderovich, Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union.A death camp survivor asks a local woman to write down in Russian his story, which he conveys in Yiddish. The Jewish population of Kyiv makes a pilgrimage to the site of a massacre on its anniversary. A single teacup becomes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • As the Dust of the Earth

    The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    A contemporary evaluation of Bergelson and his works, examining Yiddish literature, Jewish culture, and modernism.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Music from a Speeding Train

    Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Russia's Legal Fictions

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact ... Read more

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  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary + Salammbô + Sentimental Education (3 Unabridged Classics)

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “Madame Bovary + Salammbô + Sentimental Education (3 Unabridged Classics)” contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Madame Bovary, written by Gustave Flaubert, was published in 1857. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order ... Read more

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  • Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

    by Edward Said ...
    Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

    by Mikhail Bakhtin ...
    Series series Theory and History of Literature
    This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • French Literature

    A Cultural History

    by Alison Finch ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political connections between the elite literature of France and other aspects of its culture, from racism, misogyny, tolerance and liberal reform ... Read more

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