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Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death /
"Two authors, one young, one old and ailing, maintain a conversation over a period of five years. The setting is the city Vilnius - known before World War II as the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania.' As the meetings take place, the young author records on cassette the confessions of a man prep...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Ruso |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Slavica Publishers, Indiana University,
2018.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "Two authors, one young, one old and ailing, maintain a conversation over a period of five years. The setting is the city Vilnius - known before World War II as the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania.' As the meetings take place, the young author records on cassette the confessions of a man preparing to die. The dying man is the Jewish-Lithuanian intellectual Jokubas Josade, and his revelations are often distressing, for his life consists of a series of betrayals (including that of self and of his talent) and of limitless fear and apprehension"-- |
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| Description: | Translated from the Russian. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780893579753 |