Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death

• Author(s): Евсей Львович Цейтлин,
• Publisher: Three String Books
• Pages: 206
• ISBN_10: 0893574759
  ISBN_13: 9780893574758
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Jewish , Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet ,

Description:... "Two authors, one young, one old and ailing, maintain a conversation over a period of five years. The setting is the city Vilnius - known before World War II as the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania.' As the meetings take place, the young author records on cassette the confessions of a man preparing to die. The dying man is the Jewish-Lithuanian intellectual Jokubas Josade, and his revelations are often distressing, for his life consists of a series of betrayals (including that of self and of his talent) and of limitless fear and apprehension"--