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      Vidui

      MR David R Slavitt

      Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich, except that it is contemporary, Jewish, and (therefore?) often funny. Tolstoy wasn’t much given to humor, though it’s a…

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      Dwindling

      MR David R Slavitt

      Dwindling is a virtuoso work by the author of more than a hundred acclaimed works of fiction, drama, poetry, and translation. In this remarkable novel, David R. Slavitt is simultaneously…

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      Shiksa

      MR David R Slavitt

      [Slavitt’s] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent, that it would be too gross even to say that they are like angels in…

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      Shiksa

      MR David R Slavitt

      Fiction. Jewish Studies. A Jewish young man and a gentile girl fall deeply in love in the fifties but he lacks the character (or else has too much) to contemplate…

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      Walloomsac: A Roman Fleuve

      Anna Faktorovich,MR David R Slavitt

      If a novel is a work of prose of some length, this is a novel–but different in that it is more like life, which has no plots and does not…

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      The Crooning Wind: Three Greenlandic Poets

      Three mysterious Greenlandic poets are translated for the first time into English by Slavitr, a poet and novelist; and Grnkjaer, a native Greenlander named Greenland’s connection to the Anglophone world…

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      Fabrications

      Anna Faktorovich,MR David R Slavitt

      Fabrications : is a spritely love story that in its odd way recapitulates Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove. A young man and a young woman are in love…

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      The Jungle Poems of Leconte de Lisle

      Charles Marie LeConte de Lisle, Rene

      David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie Rene Leconte de Lisle, a French poet associated with the…

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