Long conversations in anticipation of a joyous death / Yevsey Tseytlin ; translated by Alexander Rojavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

T︠S︡eĭtlin, E. L. (Evseĭ Lʹvovich), author.

Contributor:

Rojavin, Alexander, translator.

Standardized Title:

Dolgie besedy v ozhidanii schastlivoĭ smerti. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Jews--Lithuania--Fiction.

Jews.

Josadė, Jokūbas.

Lithuania.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

206 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica Publishers, Indiana University ; 2018.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Narratives of farewell

Life in light of death

A man on the brink

Death and a few words after.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Electronic version: T͡Seĭtlin, E. L. (Evseĭ Lʹvovich). Dolgie besedy v ozhidanii schastlivoĭ smerti. English. Long conversations in anticipation of a joyous death.

ISBN:

9780893574758

0893574759

OCLC:

1054266208

Publisher Number:

99979955439