Written for the Drawer: Leonid Tsypkin, Uncensored Literature, and Soviet Jewishness - Couverture rigide

Winestock, Brett

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0299350002 ISBN 13 : 9780299350000

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2024

Synopsis

Russian-Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin (1926–82), a doctor by trade, wrote primarily "for the drawer," fearing professional consequences if he were to publish his fiction. Despite Tsypkin's almost complete lack of readership during his lifetime, his work has received international posthumous recognition, with Susan Sontag calling his work "among the most beautiful, exalting, and original achievements of a century's worth of fiction." 

Tsypkin's autobiographical writing explored the impossibility of being both a Russian writer and a Soviet Jew, employing both indirection and referentiality. In the first full-length book on his work, Brett Winestock considers Tsypkin's fiction as part of a transnational literary response to the horrors of the twentieth century, a reception that helps explain his much-belated international readership. Through close readings of Tsypkin's work in the context of late-Soviet cultural worlds, Winestock makes an important contribution to studies of Jewish Soviet writing and identity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brett Winestock is an instructor of Russian studies at Dalhousie University. His research has been published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and the Russian Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299350002
• ISBN 13: 9780299350000
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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