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A Death eBook

Notes of a Suicide

By Zalman Shneour. Introduction and translation by Daniel Kennedy.


In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, violently self-loathing teacher, Shloyme—and a hungry, spiteful and unsettlingly sensual revolver. Ostensibly purchased to protect Shloyme from the pogroms sweeping the empire, the weapon instead opens a portal to his innermost demons, and through it he begins his methodical mission to eradicate any remnants of life and humanity in him and pave the way for his self-destruction. A Death takes the form of a diary that follows the Jewish calendar.

Written in Yiddish in 1905 and published with immediate success in Warsaw in 1909, A Death utilizes the influences of Dostoyevsky and Schopenhauer to depict a distinctly Jewish experience of uprooted modernity, and presents a lesser-known strand of Jewish decadent literature. This translation of his inaugural novel is Schneour's first appearance in English since 1963. Its exploration of alienation, mental health, toxic masculinity and violence is remarkably contemporary.

Born in Shklow, Zalman Shneour (1887–1959) was one of the major figures of Jewish modernity, and was the most popular Yiddish writer between the World Wars. He wrote poetry, prose and plays in both Yiddish and Hebrew. Like many of his generation, his life was spent moving from city to city in search of literary community or escaping political turmoil: from Odessa to Warsaw to Vilne, and on to such Western cities as Bern, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, New York (where he died) and Tel Aviv (where he is buried).

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A DEATH
By Zalman Shneour. Introduction and translation by Daniel Kennedy.
WAKEFIELD PRESS
ISBN: 9781939663450 | US $15.95
Pub Date: 10/22/2019
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Vercoquin and the Plankton
Everything Good Dies Here
An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
The Mill
The Illuminated; or The Precursors of Socialism
The Impersonal Adventure
The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
Potsdamer Platz, or, The Nights of the New Messiah
Malpertuis
Sens-Plastique
The Die Is Cast
A Nine-Year-Old Aviator
I Guess All We Have Is Freedom
Brief Lives of Idiots
Antilogy
Word Book
Rogomelec
The Great Nocturnal
Waystations of the Deep Night
The Emperor of China’s Ice
Intimate Negrociations
Orhan Pamuk: Balkon
The Cathedral of Mist
Bit Rot
Heart of Darkness
Sweating Blood
A Terrace in Rome
Rolling the R's
The Pig
Claudia Rankine
Gold
The Book Of Disappearances & The Book Of Tractations
The Historians: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama, Book 39
The Adventures of Percival
The Man Who Refused to Die
The Heresiarch & Co
Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo: Two Novels
Blue Octavo Notebooks
Dark Spring
Everybody's Autobiography
Hebdomeros & Other Writings
Maiden Voyage
Paris Peasant
The Adventures of Telemachus
The Education of the Stoic
The Hearing Trumpet
The Supermale
In Youth Is Pleasure
Last Nights of Paris
The Book of Disquiet
Johanna Drucker: Night Crawlers On The Web
Sibylle Berg: By The Way, Did I Ever Tell You...
Shanghai Dancing
This Is a Bust
Lament in the Night
Water Chasing Water
They Who Do Not Grieve
Waylaid
East Goes West
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Rolling The R's
Roughhouse
Where We Once Belonged
Rolling The R's
City Terrace Field Manual
Unbearable Heart - Hb
East Goes West
The Story Of My Typewriter
This Is Not It
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
Dracula
Narcisa
Feathers Like Leather
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
A Voice through a Cloud
Another Ventriloquist
Cockfighter
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Vanity Fair
The High Life
Autumn in Peking
Evguenie Sokolov
Foam of the Daze
The Dead All Have The Same Skin
To Hell with the Ugly
I Spit On Your Graves
The Hanging on Union Square
The Book of Monelle
Lesabéndio
The Moiré Effect
Red Grass
The Tutu
Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys
The Prisoner Of Zenda
Madame Bovary
A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
The Conductor and Other Tales
American Canyon
Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
Fox Drum Bebop
Aurora and Cardinal Point
The Garden Book
The Creator
Semmelweis
My Own Death
The Trumpets of Jericho
Disagreeable Tales
A Dilemma
Sam Dunn is Dead
And China Has Hands
The Overcoat
The Nose
Life in the Folds
Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
Exemplary Departures
Murder Most Serene
Theory of MultiDreams
City of the Future
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Mademoiselle Bambu
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Wishes
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Imaginary Lives
The Ambivalents
Archive of the Average Swede
Psychology of the Rich Aunt
Treatise on Modern Stimulants
Whiskey Tales
Little Women
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The Sundays of Jean Dézert
Samalio Pardulus
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Room 225-6: A Novel
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Mount Analogue
Last of Her Name
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Cruise of Shadows
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Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
The House of the Seven Gables
The Girl Before Her
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
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Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis
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Empresas y Tribulaciones de Maqroll El Gaviero
Los geniecillos dominicales
La escritura obsesiva
Edición Conmemorativa del centenario de Juan Rulfo
Corrección de pruebas en Alta Provenza
El gallo de oro y otros relatos
Obra
Juan Rulfo en el cine
La mansión de Araucaíma y cuadernos del palacio
Último Round
Pedro Páramo
El llano en llamas
La vuelta al día en 80 mundos
Treasure Island
Karel Jaromír Erben & Jan Jedlicka: We Three Brothers
Groove, Bang and Jive Around
Five Stories for Philip Guston
Fernando Maquieira: A Tiny Story
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New Inventions and the Latest Innovations
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Of Dogs and Daughters
Stapelia Mixta
The Messengers
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With Their Hearts in Their Boots
The Tower of Love
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