Mezhdu ognennykh sten - Vaiskopf M.

The new book by the famous Israeli philologist Michael Weiskopf represents a real breakthrough in the study of Babel. It traces in detail both the religious-national origins of his work - from the Bible, oral Torah, Hasidism and Kabbalah to Yiddish writers, and the most important for him general cultural impulses: Rimbaud, German Expressionism, Gogol, Leskov, Block, Mandelstam, Kuzmin, Yesenin, Mayakovsky and other authors. Particular attention is paid to the continuity between Jewish tradition and Babel's innovative and paradoxical poetics. The huge material used in Weiskopf's book has for the most part never been involved in babletage before.