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The end of everything /
Originally published in 1913, and titled When All Is Said and Done in previous translations, The End of Everything is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson & rsquo;s masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Yiddish |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | New Yiddish library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Originally published in 1913, and titled When All Is Said and Done in previous translations, The End of Everything is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson & rsquo;s masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation. This version by acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to a wide English-speaking audience. Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire. The central character, Mirel Hurvits, is an educated, beautiful woman who embodies the conflict between tradition and progress, aristocracy and enterprise. A forced marriage of convenience results in Mirel & rsquo;s emotional disintegration and provokes a confrontation with the expectations of her pious family and with Jewish tradition. In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xliii, 264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780300154962 0300154968 1282352849 9781282352841 0300110677 9780300110678 9781480440814 1480440817 |