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Margarita Khemlin Klotsvog (Paperback) Russian Library
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- Book Title
- Klotsvog
- Publication Name
- Klotsvog
- Title
- Klotsvog
- Translator
- Lisa C. Hayden
- Contributor
- Lisa C. Hayden (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231182376
- EAN
- 9780231182379
- ISBN
- 9780231182379
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Release Date
- 27/08/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.8in
- Series
- Russian Library
- Original Language
- Russian
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Jewish
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know all about it. Selfish, garrulous, and thoroughly entertaining, she tells us where she came from, who she didn't get along with, and what became of all her husbands and lovers. In Klotsvog , Margarita Khemlin creates a first-person narrator who is both deeply self-absorbed and deeply compelling. From Maya's perspective, Khemlin unfurls a retelling of the Soviet Jewish experience that integrates the historical and the personal into her protagonist's vividly drawn inner and outer lives. Maya's life story flows as a long monologue, told in unfussy language dense with Khemlin's magnificently manipulated Soviet clich s and matter-of-fact descriptions of Soviet life. Born in a center of Jewish culture in Ukraine, she spent the war in evacuation in Kazakhstan. She has few friends but has had several husbands, and her relationships with her relatives are strained at best. The war looms over Klotsvog , and the trauma runs deep, as do the ambiguities and ambivalences of Jewish identity. Lisa Hayden's masterful translation brings this gripping character study full of dark, sly humor and new perspectives on Jewish heritage and survival to an English-speaking audience.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231182376
ISBN-13
9780231182379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038712990
Product Key Features
Book Title
Klotsvog
Original Language
Russian
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Jewish
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg3492.54.H46k5613
Reviews
Like some of her predecessors--Jewish writers born in small Ukrainian towns--the talented Margarita Khemlin infused the lives of her characters with grand ambitions and luminous failures. A valuable and welcome addition to the growing body of Jewish-Russian literature in English translation., Khemlin has created an unforgettable character and opened a window onto a world more people should know about., Funny and enraging, moving and deeply felt. . . . A subtle, nuanced take on one apparently selfish woman and the difficult choices she makes., In many ways, Khemlin has written the picaresque novel for the Soviet Era. . . . Maya Klotsvog's life recalls a Jewish adage mentioned in the novel, 'The house is burning but the clock still keeps time.' We see a life that moves forward even while it smolders. Her survival is triumphant, as is this novel., Masterful . . . The storytelling is sumptuous throughout, and Klotsvog is also memorable for its bold grasp on the legacy of anxiety . . . Between the suffering of the past and the fear of the future, Khemlin shows how our relationship with love can be determined by our reckoning with ancestral pain., This singular novel is simultaneously an intimate portrait of a woman who does not see the consequences of her actions and an exploration of the corrosive effects of anti-Semitism on individuals and society. Set after World War II, it feels eerily timely. A most necessary read., Maya Abramovna Klotsvog is materialistic and manipulative. She's a kind of Soviet Becky Sharp, in a 1950s version of Vanity Fair , trying to survive in a hostile world. . . . In giving voice to this complex, wounded character, Khemlin invites us to empathize even as we judge and to better understand our own common, terrified, irrational humanity., Klotsvog is a story of everyday darkness told by the ultimate unreliable narrator. Armed with endless justifications, Maya's compelled by the power of what she sheds, whether it's her Jewish heritage, her Ukrainian roots, her failed relationships, or her self-awareness. Yet part of what makes her confusing and compelling is the core of practical ambition, survivorship, and threat that lies beneath her vanity. As Maya vibrates on a frequency between ruthless self-determination and charming narcissism, Klotsvog infects its audience with a compulsion to determine which dominates., Through the defensive, abject, yet utterly seductive voice of its untrustworthy narrator, Klotsvog entices us to enter the suspect schemes and shameless denials that characterize the dailiness of Soviet Jewish lives. As a novel, it is so utterly honest, it will make you cringe.
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-061305
Dewey Decimal
891.735
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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