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Jewish literature
Leonid Tsypkin
literature in translation
Norartakir
Russian literature
Russian-Jewish
samizdat
Soviet Jews
Soviet Union
Summer in Baden-Baden
Susan Sontag
The Bridge Over the Neroch
travelogue
Product details
- ISBN 9780299350000
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2024
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 both indirection and referentiality. In the first full-length book on 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.
Tsypkin’s autobiographical writing explored the impossibility of being both a Russian writer and a Soviet Jew, employing both indirection and referentiality. In the first full-length book on 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.
Brett Winestock is an instructor of Russian studies at Dalhousie University. His research has been published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and the Russian Review.
