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The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics)

The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics) Paperback - 2008

by Der Nister

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  • Title The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics)
  • Author Der Nister
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, New York
  • Date 2008
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013588839
  • ISBN 9781590172797 / 1590172795
  • Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 4.98 x 1.5 in (21.18 x 12.65 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Ukraine - Social life and customs, Brothers - Family relationships - Ukraine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008001850
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

Der Nister (1884–1950) was the pen name used by Pinhas Kahanovitch, a Yiddish writer, philosopher, translator, critic, and key figure in modernist literature in Kiev in the 1920s. In 1921, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Der Nister left Russia and settled in Germany, where he published two collections of stories. In 1927, he returned to the Soviet Union, where his work was declared reactionary by the Soviet regime and its literary critics. He was arrested in 1949 and died in a Soviet prison hospital in 1950.

 

Leonard Wolf is a much-published writer of poetry, fiction, social history, and biography, and a leading translator of Yiddish literature. He lives in New York City.

 

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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"Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, who wrote under the pseudonym Der Nister (or 'The Hidden One'), was a master of the surreal...What is astounding about this book, despite its extreme realism, is how it achieves a kind of surrealistic magic of its own. Despite its outwardly censor-approved story, the novel contains a hidden commentary on coercive belief and, through its breathtaking depth of detail, an almost supernatural resurrection of a Jewish life that failed to prove its right to exist. Reading this massive novel is the closest anyone can come today to living in that world." --Dara Horn, Foreword Magazine

"The restoration to the light of this extraordinary novel is an act of literary and cultural redemption. More than that, the restitution of this Yiddish masterwork-as life-saturated as the other great Russian novels--is an augmentation of world literature." -Cynthia Ozick

"Like his contemporary and friend, Marc Chagall, Kahanovitch depicts Russian Jewish life 100 years ago...Leonard Wolf's translation is stylish...it expresses beautifully a poetic turn-of-the-century novel...We should see Kahanovitch posthumously rehabilitated...one of [the Soviet Union's] outstanding literary figures." -The Financial Times

"The great achievement of The Family Mashber is to have re-created with such passionate objectivity, in all its complexity and breadth, a world what exists now only in this enduring memorial to it...a book that leads us...to cross thresholds, most of all the threshold of our own experience; to enter in and be moved like him by the 'spirit of celebration.'" -The New York Review of Books

"This scrupulously detailed, grandly plotted family novel-a realistic work that deals with questions of both faith and commerce while managing mystical overtones-compels attention and admiration." -National Yiddish Book Center

"This vast mural of the Ukraine, written in Yiddish 50 years ago and only now published in English...is notable for its depth and breadth of characterization, noise and variety, coarse comedy and Goya-esque depiction of jostling, importunate mobs. Readers won't soon forget the mansions and hovels, refuse-strewn alleys and fragrant courts of the market town so vividly re-created in this powerful novel." -Publishers Weekly

"An extraordinary novel." -Alan Sillitoe, The Sunday Times

"A fascinating read." -Guardian

"Earthily realistic and powerfully transcendental...it holds much reward for anyone attracted to the reincarnation of a culture now disappeared, but brought to life by a passionate sense of tribal history." -The Herald

"One of the masterpieces of Soviet fiction." -The Modern Jewish Canon

Citations

  • London Review of Books, 07/31/2008, Page 33

About the author

Der Nister (1884-1950) was the pen name used by Pinhas Kahanovitch, a Yiddish writer, philosopher, translator, critic, and key figure in modernist literature in Kiev in the 1920s. In 1921, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Der Nister left Russia and settled in Germany, where he published two collections of stories. In 1927, he returned to the Soviet Union, where his work was declared reactionary by the Soviet regime and its literary critics. He was arrested in 1949 and died in a Soviet prison hospital in 1950.

Leonard Wolf is a much-published writer of poetry, fiction, social history, and biography, and a leading translator of Yiddish literature. He lives in New York City.

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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