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

By Efraim Sicher

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025990
• ISBN13: 9780521025997
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"