Nostalgia for a Foreign Land Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel [Hardcover]

This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the big wave of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis. Roman Katsmans pioneeringNostalgia for a Foreign Landaddresses one of the most impressive, unusual and intriguing literary phenomena in Russian since 1991: Russian-language prose in Israel. While aspiring to its synthetic study, the book covers a broad range of writers from an immensely popular contemporary fiction writer to a leading member of an experimental avant-garde group. This is an excellent, illuminating and cogent work; its in-depth literary analysis is rich in detail. The book makes no attempt to embellish the literary works it analyzes; their unquestionable aesthetic achievements and sometimes problematic ideologies are examined with attention and unfailing honesty. Within broader a context, this is a very significant contribution to the understanding of Jewish literature in Russian, as well as contemporary Jewish literary writing.With great knowledge of cultural studies and philosophy and with an impressive interpretive depth, Katsman & reflects on the works themselves. He manages to combine an oeuvres central semantic aspects in a comprehensive philosophical interpretation.This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the big wave of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson.Preface

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