Testing the boundaries: migration & metamorphosis in Lev Lunts

Emily Finer

doi:10.1080/1462169X.2019.1557461

Testing the boundaries: migration & metamorphosis in Lev Lunts

Emily Finer

Russian

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In the early 1920s there were many different ways to be a Russian Jewish writer. Unlike Babel and Mandelstam, Lev Lunts (1900-1924) interrogated his hyphenated identity through humour, parody, fantasy, and satire. Two short stories: “The Homeland” (1922) and “Crossing the Border” (1923) see semi-autobiographical characters occupying the liminal spaces between the Jewish and the Russian, the East and the West, the past and the present. Lunts and his characters are attracted and repelled by the boundaries of genre and taste, demonstrating that literary creativity comes from being in constant motion across border zones, whether by means of migration, metamorphosis or their reversal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-61
Journal	Jewish Culture and History
Volume	20
Issue number	1
Early online date	20 Dec 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2019.1557461
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019

Keywords

Jewish
Russian
LIterature
Revolution
Modernism
Identity
Antisemitism
border
gorky
lunts
kaverin
serapion
petrograd
st petersburg
russia
zionism
babylon
science fiction
Yiddish
hebrew

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Emily Finer
- ef50st-andrews.acuk
- Russian - Senior Lecturer
- School of Modern Languages
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2 Chapter
2 Article
1 Book

Kiev-town: Bulgakov's Guide to Kyiv. Translated with Introduction by Emily Finer
Finer, E., 23 Oct 2023, In: Kajet Digital.
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Two Natures Translated from the Russian by Emily Finer
Finer, E., 1 Feb 2017, In: Inventory. 7
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‘A rift on the left front?’: Lef (1923-5) and Na postu (1923-5)
Finer, E., 28 Mar 2013, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III, Europe 1880-1940, Part II. Brooker, P., Bru, S., Thacker, A. & Weikop, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 1319-1340 (The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines; vol. 3).
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Kiev-town: Bulgakov's Guide to Kyiv. Translated with Introduction by Emily Finer

Two Natures Translated from the Russian by Emily Finer

‘A rift on the left front?’: Lef (1923-5) and Na postu (1923-5)

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