The end of everything / David Bergelson; translated and with an introduction by Joseph Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergelson, David, 1884-1952.

Contributor:

Sherman, Joseph.

Series:

New Yiddish library.

New Yiddish library

Standardized Title:

Nokh alemen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yiddish fiction.

Yiddish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Velvl Burnes

Part 2. Mirel

Part 3. The Beginning of the End

Part 4. The End of Everything

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-282-35284-9

9786612352843

0-300-15496-8

OCLC:

1024022712