YUDL: AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 12070012B59392
English Summary/英文概要： Set in 1920s Chicago, the short novel Yudl follows its eponymous protagonist, a middle-aged editor at a left-leaning newspaper called The Yiddish Courier. Yudl and his wife have decided to become landlords, purchasing a vacant lot and hiring an acquaintance—aptly named Mason—to oversee the construction of their future apartment building. However, delays in the construction leave Yudl and his family without a home, forcing them to stay with Mason and his family until the construction is finally complete. Told with wry wit and a masterful sensibility for metaphor, the story explores gender, Zionism, and the immigrant experience in the US. The selection of short stories that follow the novel in this volume were selected by the author from her deathbed during her last weeks and then hours on earth. Silbert’s graceful short stories focus on the family, allowing the reader glimpses of a child’s happiness, the cripplingly contradictory demands of femininity, the complexity of grief, and a sustained meditation on life and death.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 场景设置在1920年代的芝加哥,短篇小说Yudl遵循其同名主人公,是一份左倾报纸的中年编辑，这份报纸被称为意第绪语的信使。Yudl和他的妻子已经决定成为地主,购买空地和雇佣一个熟人来监督他们未来的公寓大楼的建设，这个佣人他被恰如其分的命名为梅森。然而,延误建设使得Yudl和他的家人没有家,迫使他们与梅森和他的家人呆在一起,直到最终完成建设。作者使用诙谐机智的语言和熟练感性的暗语讲述了探讨性别、犹太复国主义的故事和美国的移民经历。
短篇故事选中的小说是作者在她临终前的最后几周中挑选出来的。伯特的优雅的短篇小说关注家庭,让读者瞥见一个孩子的幸福, 女性气质的矛盾的需求，悲伤的复杂性,对于生命和死亡持续的沉思。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： LAYLE希尔伯特(1913 - 2003)在芝加哥长大，生活在俄罗斯的移民家庭。她做过摄影师,大多作家朋友尼尔森, 在美国和在国际上已超过三十件展品。她写诗和少量的个人随笔,但主要是将自己看做一个短篇小说家, 她的一生，在文学杂志上出版过数以百计的故事。她是前一个故事的作者收集,自由思想家(七个故事出版社,2000)。LAYLE SILBERT (1913-2003) grew up in Chicago in a Russian immigrant household. She made a career as a photographer, mostly of writers like friend Nelson Algren, and had more than thirty exhibits in the US and internationally. She wrote poems and a handful of personal essays, but primarily considered herself a writer of short-fiction, publishing hundreds of stories in literary magazines throughout her life. She is the author of a previous story collection, The Free Thinkers (Seven Stories Press, 2000).
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