The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov
A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday
The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov
A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday
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Celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov - poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and translator (and medical doctor and researcher). Published in the year of his 85th birthday, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives.
Roman Katsman was born in the USSR and has lived in Israel since 1990. He is a Professor in theDepartment of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. Katsman is the author of numberof books and articles about Hebrew and Russian literature, particularly about Jewish-Russian andRussian-Israeli literature and thought. He has worked on the theoretical problems of mythopoesis, chaos,nonverbal communication, sincerity, alternative history, and humor. His most recent books, ElusiveReality: A Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature (1920-2020), (2020, in Russian) and Nostalgiafor a Foreign Land (2016, in English), examine the Russian-language literature in Israel. Other majorpublication include Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew(2018), Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (2013), At theOther End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature (2008), Poeticsof Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and SlavicLiterature (2005), The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon (2002) andothers.
Klavdia Smola, a Moscow-born scholar, is Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at theDepartment of Slavic Studies, University of Dresden (Germany). She obtained her Ph.D. at theUniversity of Tübingen, taught at the University of Greifswald, and was research fellow at theuniversities of Jerusalem, Moscow, Barcelona, Constance and Cracow. She authored the books Typesand Patterns of Intertextuality in the Prose of Anton Chekhov (2004, in German) and Reinvention ofTradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature (2019, in German). Smola co-edited JewishUnderground Culture in the late Soviet Union (Special Issue of the journal East European JewishAffairs, 2018); Russia—Culture of (Non-)Conformity: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present (SpecialIssue of the journal Russian Literature, 2018, with Mark Lipovetsky); Postcolonial Slavic Literaturesafter Communism (2016, together with Dirk Uffelmann); Jewish Spaces and Topographies in East-Central Europe: Constructions in Literature and Culture (2014, in German, together with Olaf Terpitz),and Eastern European Jewish Literatures of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics (2013).
Maxim D. Shrayer, translingual author, scholar and translator, was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987 with his parents, David Shrayer-Petrov and Emilia Shrayer. He is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry at the Davis Center, Harvard University. Shrayer is the author and editor of over 15 books of criticism and biography, fiction and nonfiction, and poetry. His books include The World of Nabokov’s Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, Bunin and Nabokov: A History of Rivalry (which was a bestseller in Russia), Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, and, most recently, Antisemitism and the Decline of Russian Village Prose and Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. He is the editor of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature and Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature. Shrayer is a Guggenheim Fellow and the winner of a National Jewish Book Award. Shrayer’s works have appeared in ten languages.
Roman Katsman was born in the USSR and has lived in Israel since 1990. He is a Professor in theDepartment of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. Katsman is the author of numberof books and articles about Hebrew and Russian literature, particularly about Jewish-Russian andRussian-Israeli literature and thought. He has worked on the theoretical problems of mythopoesis, chaos,nonverbal communication, sincerity, alternative history, and humor. His most recent books, ElusiveReality: A Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature (1920-2020), (2020, in Russian) and Nostalgiafor a Foreign Land (2016, in English), examine the Russian-language literature in Israel. Other majorpublication include Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew(2018), Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (2013), At theOther End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature (2008), Poeticsof Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and SlavicLiterature (2005), The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon (2002) andothers.
Klavdia Smola, a Moscow-born scholar, is Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at theDepartment of Slavic Studies, University of Dresden (Germany). She obtained her Ph.D. at theUniversity of Tübingen, taught at the University of Greifswald, and was research fellow at theuniversities of Jerusalem, Moscow, Barcelona, Constance and Cracow. She authored the books Typesand Patterns of Intertextuality in the Prose of Anton Chekhov (2004, in German) and Reinvention ofTradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature (2019, in German). Smola co-edited JewishUnderground Culture in the late Soviet Union (Special Issue of the journal East European JewishAffairs, 2018); Russia—Culture of (Non-)Conformity: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present (SpecialIssue of the journal Russian Literature, 2018, with Mark Lipovetsky); Postcolonial Slavic Literaturesafter Communism (2016, together with Dirk Uffelmann); Jewish Spaces and Topographies in East-Central Europe: Constructions in Literature and Culture (2014, in German, together with Olaf Terpitz),and Eastern European Jewish Literatures of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Identity and Poetics (2013).
Maxim D. Shrayer, translingual author, scholar and translator, was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987 with his parents, David Shrayer-Petrov and Emilia Shrayer. He is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry at the Davis Center, Harvard University. Shrayer is the author and editor of over 15 books of criticism and biography, fiction and nonfiction, and poetry. His books include The World of Nabokov’s Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, Bunin and Nabokov: A History of Rivalry (which was a bestseller in Russia), Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, and, most recently, Antisemitism and the Decline of Russian Village Prose and Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. He is the editor of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature and Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature. Shrayer is a Guggenheim Fellow and the winner of a National Jewish Book Award. Shrayer’s works have appeared in ten languages.