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Written for the Drawer Leonid Tsypkin Uncensored Literature and Soviet Jewishness
by [Winestock, Brett]
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Russian-Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin (1926-82), a doctor by trade, wrote primarily "for the drawer," fearing professional consequences if he were to publish his fiction. Despite Tsypkin's almost complete lack of readership during his lifetime, his work has received international posthumous recognition, with Susan Sontag calling his work "among the most beautiful, exalting, and original achievements of a century's worth of fiction."
Tsypkin's autobiographical writing explored the impossibility of being both a Russian writer and a Soviet Jew, employing indirection and referentiality. In the first book-length appraisal of Tsypkin and his work, Brett Winestock considers Tsypkin's fiction as part of a transnational literary response to the horrors of the twentieth century, a reception that helps explain his much-belated international readership. Through close readings of Tsypkin's work in the context of late-Soviet cultural worlds, Winestock makes an important contribution to studies of Jewish Soviet writing and identity.
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- University of Wisconsin P Brand
- Dec 17, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9780299350000 ISBN-13:
- 0299350002 ISBN-10:
- 222.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.7 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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