Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov
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).…
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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 therefusenik 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 afterthe writer's emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials andinvestigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. Byfocusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov's multifaceted and eventful literary career, thevolume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewishpoetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history.