The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works

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Price
$16.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
352
Dimensions
5.22 X 8.0 X 0.69 inches | 0.61 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811216616
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About the Author

Leonid Tsypkin was born in Minsk in 1926 of Russian-Jewish parents, both physicians. His last book, Summer in Baden-Baden, is the culmination of a passionate, clandestine literary vocation; a distinguished medical researcher by profession, Tsypkin never saw a page of his literary work published during his lifetime. The manuscript of Summer in Baden-Baden was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1981, and the novel was first published in a Russian-émigré weekly in the United States. Tsypkin, who had been twice denied permission to leave the Soviet Union with his family, died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1982.

Reviews

There is no prose quite like Tsypkin's. Inside his dependent clauses, nested in his parentheses, the past is preserved, intact, contemporary with the present. The effect is vertiginous and profoundly moving.
Tsypkin's prose glows with ingenuity and experimentation as he creates a chaotic, raging river of consciousness in which present, past, and future; dream, reality, and memory all collide within the same paragraph, even within the same sentence.
Excellent translations of Tyspkin's...small literary oeuvre of astonishing originality.--Rachel Polonsky
The word "Jewish," as translator Jamey Gambrell points out in the introduction, appears rarely for how often the story concerns otherness within one's own country and family. The narrator's son is beaten up, held down in front of the girls during a jokey teenage gathering because he is Jewish, though the reason is never made explicit. That's the book for you--the surreal treated as commonplace and vice versa until it's all the same.--Dan Duray