Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A Note on Transliteration and Spelling of Names xi
5. PART ONE David Shrayer-Petrov: Life, Art, and Thought
6. David Shrayer-Petrov, Russian-Jewish Writer 1
7. The Nonconformist Poetics of David Shrayer-Petrov 25
8. David Shrayer-Petrov’s Exilic Voices 59
9. PART TWO Studies of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetry
10. Drums of Fate: David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poetics of Fractured Wholeness 95
11. Voice of Destiny: Notes in the Margins of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poems 132
12. Italy in the Poetry of David Shrayer-Petrov 155
13. David Shrayer-Petrov’s Poem “Friend’s Illness”: An Approach to Reading 173
14. David Shrayer-Petrov and Genrikh Sapgir: Feasts of Friendship 198
15. PART THREE David Shrayer-Petrov’s Refusenik Novels
16. David Shrayer-Petrov’s Aliyah Novels and the Epistemology of the Jewish-Soviet Cultural Revival 221
17. Doctor Levitin by David Shrayer-Petrov and the Theme of Jewish Revenge 239
18. On Literary Tradition and Literary Authority in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin 255
19. Leaving Home Is for the Brave: A Reading of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Doctor Levitin 270
20. PART FOUR Approaches to David Shrayer-Petrov’s Prose
21. Who is Grifanov? David Shrayer-Petrov’s Dialogue with Yury Trifonov 285
22. The Birth of the Novel from the Spirit of Contradiction: The Jewish Theologeme in David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novel-Fantella Yudin’s Redemption 305
23. To Kill the Leader: The Morphology of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Novella “Dinner with Stalin” 332
24. Post Scriptum
25. “Each writer has his or her own Jewish secret. . . .”: A Conversation in Three Parts* Conducted on the Occasion of the Publication of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Collection Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) 349
26. David Shrayer-Petrov: A Pictorial Biography 360
27. David Shrayer-Petrov (Давид Шраер-Петров): A Bibliography of Works 403
28. Index of Names and Places 425
29. Contributors 437