"I Am to Be Read Not from Left to Right, But in Jewish: From Right to Left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky

by Marat Grinberg

Book Overview

Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg's book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618112759
• ISBN13: 9781618112750
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"