The End of Everything / / David Bergelson; Joseph Sherman

• Autore: Bergelson David
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 839/.133
• Soggetto topico: Yiddish fiction; Yiddish literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ShermanJoseph
• Persona (resp. second.): ShermanJoseph
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Velvl Burnes -- Part 2. Mirel -- Part 3. The Beginning of the End -- Part 4. The End of Everything
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The End of Everything
• ISBN: 1-282-35284-9; 9786612352843; 0-300-15496-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456174503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Yiddish library.