The parallel universes of David Shrayer-Petrov : a collection published on the occasion of the writer's 85th birthday / edited by Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer, Klavdia Smola.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

David Shrayer-Petrov: life, art, and thought. David Shrayer-Petrov, Russian-Jewish writer / Klavdia Smola ; The non-conformist poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov / Roman Katsman ; David Shrayer-Petrov's exilic voices / Maxim D. Shrayer -- Studies of David Shrayer-Petrov's poetry. Drums of fate: David Shrayer-Petrov's poetics of fractured wholeness / Ian Probstein ; Voice of destiny: notes in the margins of David Shrayer-Petrov's poems / Oleg Smola ; Italy in the poetry of David Shrayer-Petrov / Stefano Garzonio ; David Shrayer-Petrov's poem "Friend's Illness": an approach to reading / Andrei Ranchin ; David Shrayer-Petrov and Genrikh Sapgir: feasts of friendship / Evgeny Ermolin -- David Shrayer-Petrov's refusenik novels. David Shrayer-Petrov's Aliyah novels and the epistemology of the Jewish Soviet cultural revival / Klavdia Smola ; Doctor Levitin by David Shrayer-Petrov and the theme of Jewish revenge / Joshua Rubenstein ; On literary tradition and literary authority in David Shrayer-Petrov's Doctor Levitin / Brian Horowitz ; Leaving home is for the brave: a reading of David Shrayer-Petrov's Doctor Levitin / Monica Osborne -- Approaches to David Shrayer-Petrov's prose. Who is Grifanov?: David Shrayer-Petrov's dialogue with Yuri Trifonov / Marat Grinberg ; The birth of a novel from the spirit of contradiction: the Jewish theologeme in David Shrayer-Petrov's novel-fantella Yudin's Redemption / Leonid Katsis ; To kill the leader: the morphology of David Shrayer-Petrov's novella"'Dinner with Stalin" / Boris Lanin -- Post Scriptum. "Each writer has his or her own Jewish secret...": a conversation in three parts conducted on the occasion of the publication of David Shrayer-Petrov's collection Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) / David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer.

"This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov-poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov's eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer's emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. By focusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov's multifaceted and eventful literary career, the volume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewish poetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history. In addition to fifteen essays and an extensive interview with Shrayer-Petrov, the volume features a detailed bibliography and a pictorial biography"-- Provided by publisher.

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