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What is A Death: Notes of a Suicide about?

In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark, expressionist love affair develops in a large, unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, and violently self-loathing teacher, Shloymeand a hungry, spiteful, and unsettlingly sensual revolver. Purchased from a friend ostensibly to protect him from the pogroms sweeping the empire, the weapon instead opens a portal to Shloymes innermost demons, and through it he begins his methodical mission to eradicate any remnants of life and humanity in him and pave the way for his self-destruction. A Death takes the form of a diary that follows the Jewish calendar, describing hallucinatory demons and parasitical urges as its author spends his remaining days excising all his responsibilities and acquaintances from a life now devoted to not living. Written in Yiddish in 1905 and published with immediate success in Warsaw in 1909, A Death utilizes the influences of Dostoyevsky and Schopenhauer to depict a distinctly Jewish experience of homelessness and uprooted modernity. Zalman Shneours short novel presents a much lesser-known strand of Jewish decadent literature and an authorial voice that has been buried for too long. This

Author

Zalman Shneour, Daniel Kennedy

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Wakefield Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781939663450

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities