A Death av Zalman Shneour

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<p><strong>Zalman Shneour¿s inaugural novel: a story of suicide in the form of a diary</strong></p><p>In a Yiddish take on <I>Notes from Underground</I>, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, violently self-loathing teacher, Shloyme¿and a hungry, spiteful and unsettlingly sensual revolver. Ostensibly purchased to protect Shloyme from the pogroms sweeping the empire, the weapon instead opens a portal to his innermost demons, and through it he begins his methodical mission to eradicate any remnants of life and humanity in him and pave the way for his self-destruction. <i>A Death</i> takes the form of a diary that follows the Jewish calendar.<br><br>Written in Yiddish in 1905 and published with immediate success in Warsaw in 1909, <i>A Death</i> utilizes the influences of Dostoyevsky and Schopenhauer to depict a distinctly Jewish experience of uprooted modernity, and presents a lesser-known strand of Jewish decadent literature. Th