The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov

This volume celebrates the achievements of the David Shrayer-Petrov--Jewish-Russian writer, former refusenik activist (and medical doctor in his parallel career). Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov's eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer's emigration from the former USSR, this book brings together leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars and examines Shrayer-Petrov's writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives.