The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday

This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov—poet, fiction writer, memoirist,essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of therefusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov’s eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years afterthe writer’s emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials andinvestigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. Byfocusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov’s multifaceted and eventful literary career, thevolume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewishpoetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history. In addition to fifteen essays and an extensive interview with Shrayer-Petrov, the volume features a detailed bibliography and a pictorialbiography.