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This volume celebrates the achievements of the David Shrayer-Petrov-Jewish-Russian writer, former refusenik activist (and medical doctor in his parallel career). Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov's eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer's emigration from the former USSR, this book brings together leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars and examines Shrayer-Petrov's writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives.
About the author
Maxim D. Shrayer, translingual author, scholar and translator, was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987 with his parents, David Shrayer-Petrov and Emilia Shrayer. He is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry at the Davis Center, Harvard University. Shrayer is the author and editor of over 15 books of criticism and biography, fiction and nonfiction, and poetry. His books include The World of Nabokov’s Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, Bunin and Nabokov: A History of Rivalry (which was a bestseller in Russia), Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, and, most recently, Antisemitism and the Decline of Russian Village Prose and Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. He is the editor of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature and Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature. Shrayer is a Guggenheim Fellow and the winner of a National Jewish Book Award. Shrayer’s works have appeared in ten languages.
Summary
Celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov - poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and translator (and medical doctor and researcher). Published in the year of his 85th birthday, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives.
