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Overview"Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called """"the real twentieth century,"""" in Petrograd, a place indelibly marked by that century's violent dislocations and upheavals. His story, begun on the eve of the First World War and taking him through Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, and the U. S. Army, is in many ways a memoir of that """"real twentieth century,"""" reflecting its lethal nature and shaped by the """"fearful symmetry"""" of the age of totalitarianism. Erlich's grandfather, the legendary Jewish historian Simon Dubnov, was felled in December 1941 by a Nazi bullet; his father, Henryk Erlich, a leader of the Jewish Bund and a prominent figure in Russian and Polish socialism, took his life in Stalin's prison in May 1942. To read about Erlich's life growing up at the intersection of the century's darkest currents is to experience history firsthand from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Second World War - and to know what it truly is to be a child of the century. Erlich conjures up what it was like to be a Bundist, the intensity of Socialist life at the time, the thinking after the Nazi invasion of Poland - before the pact between Hitler and Stalin became apparent. Figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendel Wilkie, Marc and Bella Chagall make appearances, as well as the famous logician Tarski, flunking Erlich in math. Throughout, despite the darkness, even the horror, of much of what he describes, the author maintains the beguiling tone and the warm manner of one who has reached the new millennium with rare and hard-won insight into the human comedy of his time." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Victor ErlichPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.339kg ISBN: 9780810123519ISBN 10: 0810123517 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 July 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsVictor Erlich has added magnificently to our sense of what once was, and will never be again. --Forward Set forth in lively prose, [it] greatly enhances our understanding and adds significantly to the annals of recent history. --Buffalo Jewish Review Set forth in lively prose, [it] greatly enhances our understanding and adds significantly to the annals of recent history. -- Buffalo Jewish Review Author InformationVictor Erlich is a distinguished literary critic and the Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Yale University. He is the author of several books including Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition (Harvard, 1994) and the much praised Russian Formalism: History and Doctrine (Yale, 1981). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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