02962nam 2200625Ia 450 991082579750332120200520144314.01-282-35284-997866123528430-300-15496-810.12987/9780300154962(CKB)2520000000006625(StDuBDS)AH23050049(SSID)ssj0000295161(PQKBManifestationID)11225715(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295161(PQKBWorkID)10312722(PQKB)10478177(DE-B1597)485076(OCoLC)1024022712(DE-B1597)9780300154962(MiAaPQ)EBC3420635(MiAaPQ)EBC1807148(EXLCZ)99252000000000662520090601d2010 uy 1engur|||||||||||txtccrThe end of everything /David Bergelson; translated and with an introduction by Joseph Sherman1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (256 p.)New Yiddish libraryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11067-7 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --Part 1. Velvl Burnes --Part 2. Mirel --Part 3. The Beginning of the End --Part 4. The End of EverythingOriginally published in 1913, When All Is Said and Done is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson'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'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.New Yiddish library.Yiddish fictionYiddish literatureYiddish fiction.Yiddish literature.839/.133Bergelson David1884-1952.1655314Sherman Joseph1655315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825797503321The End of Everything4007657UNINA