"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" [electronic resource] : the poetics of Boris Slutsky / Marat Grinberg.
Material type: TextSeries: Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)Publication details: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011Description: 481 p. : ill., portISBN: 9781618111333 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Slutskii, Boris, 1919-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation | Russian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 891.71/44 LOC classification: PG3476.S5713 | Z68 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. 432-[451]) and indexes.
Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe -- Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation -- The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion -- Pt. 1. Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. Polemics -- Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies -- On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls -- Conversing about god: between the old and the new -- Pt. 3. Intertexts -- Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff -- Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov -- "leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii -- "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii -- the final myth: Pushkin -- conclusion: the reader in perpetuity.
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