Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution - Writers and Artists Between Hope and Apostasy

Zusammenfassung This study shows how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Burning embers; 2. Modernist responses to war and revolution: the Jewish Jesus; 3. The Jewishness of Babel; 4. The 'colour' of Judaism: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time; 5. The Father, the Son and holy Russia: Boris Pasternak, Hermann Cohen and the religion of Doctor Zhivago; 6. Ilia Ehrenburg: the eternal chameleon; Epilogue: hope betrayed; Notes; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Efraim Sicher
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Cross (Editore), Anthony Professor Cross (Editore), Catriona Kelly (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025997
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02599-7
• Pagine: 308
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Russian L
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava