Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg’s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky’s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, daringly fusing biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.
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Marat Grinberg (Ph D University of Chicago, 2006) is Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His recent essays include “’The Problem of Evil’: an Exchange with Tony Judt” (The New York Review of Books, 2008); “’All the Young Poets have Become Old Jews’: Boris Slutsky’s Russian Jewish Canon” (East European Jewish Affairs, 2007) and “The Midrash from Joseph: ‘Isaac and Abraham’ as Brodsky’s Ur-Text” in Poetics. Self. Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone (Bloomington, Slavica, 2007).
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