| Titre | Encounters : Russians and Jews in the short stories of David Aizman | |
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| Auteur | Alice Stone-Nakhimovsky | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 26, no 2, avril-juin 1985 Autour de la littérature juive russe | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 175-183 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Alice Stone-Nakhimovsky, Encounters: Russians and Jews in the short stories of David Aizman.
By choosing to write in Russian and about Jews, a writer becomes both Russian and Jew, sympathiser and self-hater. These contradictions are particularly evident in the work of the turn-of-the century writer David Aizman. In a series of stories relating to the pogroms, he takes up the difference between Russians and Jews in their apprehension of the same event, and explores the values of the Russian literary tradition as they apply to the pogroms. Yet even when the reality of Jewish life deflates the myth of productive suffering and casts doubt on the idea of the peasantry as the source of genuine wisdom, Aizman retains an ail-encompassing love for mother Russia. In his very materialist world view, which denies his Russian Jews both their religion and their traditional sense of community, this love for Russia represents a singularly powerful spiritual note. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1985_num_26_2_2041 |
