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      The End of Everything

      by David Bergelson
      Published
      Oct 2013
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      312
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      Originally published in 1913, and titled When All Is Said and Done in previous translations, The End of Everything is one of the great novels of the twentieth century. Considered David Bergelson's masterpiece, it was written in Yiddish and until now has been unavailable in a complete and accurate English translation. This version by acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to a wide English-speaking audience.

      Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire. The central character, Mirel Hurvits, is an educated, beautiful woman who embodies the conflict between tradition and progress, aristocracy and enterprise. A forced marriage of convenience results in Mirel's emotional disintegration and provokes a confrontation with the expectations of her pious family and with Jewish tradition. In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Jun 2008 Yale University Press ISBN13 9780300110678 ISBN10 0300110677
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      First Edition Oct 2013 Yale University Press ISBN13 9781480440814 ISBN10 1480440817
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      Oct 2013 The New Yiddish Library ISBN10 B00FFQOAXC
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