I Am to Be Read Not from Left to Right, But in Jewish. From Right to Left: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky 14+

📕 Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original fi gure of Russian poetry of thesecond half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored andunstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg's book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, daringly fusing biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.