Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution: Writers and Artists Between Hope and Apostasy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025997)

This study is an innovative and controversial study of how the best-known Jews writing in Russian in early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook and social or ideological pressures. Comparison of literary texts and the visual arts reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change. Sicher provides a fascinating view of intercultural and intertextual connections and contrasts.

Author: Efraim Sicher
ISBN-10: 0521025990
ISBN-13: 9780521025997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2006
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d