BOOKS - Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
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981268
981268
Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories
Author: Blume Lempel
Year: 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.3 MB
Language: English
Year: 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.3 MB
Language: English
Winner of the Modern Language Associations Fania Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies 2018Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub the translators on encountering Blume Lempels stories wrote When we began reading and translating we didnt know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son We didnt know wed meet a young woman lying on the table at an abortion clinic We didnt know wed meet a middleaged woman full of erotic imaginings as she readies herself for a blind date Buried in this forgotten Yiddishlanguage material we found modernist stories and modernist storytelling techniques imagine reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the conversational touch of Grace PaleyLempel 19071999 was one of a small number of writers in the United States who wrote in Yiddish into the 1990s Though many of her stories opened a window on the Old World and the Holocaust she did not confine herself to these landscapes or themes She often wrote about the margins of society and about subjects considered untouchable her prizewinning fiction is remarkable for its psychological acuity its unflinching examination of erotic themes and gender relations and its technical virtuosity Mirroring the dislocation of mostly women protagonists her stories move between present and past Old World and New dream and realityWhile many of her stories opened a window on the Old World and the Holocaust she also wrote about the margins of society about subjects considered untouchable among them abortion prostitution womens erotic imaginings and even incest She illuminated the inner lives of her charactersmostly women Her storylines migrate between past and present Old World and New dream and reality modernday New York and prewar Poland bedtime story and passionate romance and oldage dementia and girlhood dreamsImmigrating to New York when Hitler rose to power Blume Lempel began publishing her short stories in 1945 By the 1970s her work had become known throughout the Yiddish literary world When she died in 1999 the Yiddish paper Forverts wrote Yiddish literature has lost one of its most remarkable women writersEllen Cassedy translator is author of the awardwinning study We Are Here about the Lithuanian Holocaust With her colleague Yermiyahu Ahron Taub they received the Yiddish Book Center 2012 Translation Prize for translating Blume Lempel Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of several books of poetry including Prayers of a HereticTfiles fun an apikoyres 2013Uncle Feygele2011 and What Stillness IlluminatedVos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn 2008
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