The Supervisor of the Sea
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The Supervisor of the Sea, by Emil Draitser, is a collection of short stories.
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Synopsis
The longer and more serious stories of an acclaimed author that move from Russia to America to the fantastic beyond. Includes the celebrated "Wedding in Brighton Beach" and "Faithful Masha."
Summary
Emil Draitser has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1965. Under his pen name "Emile Abramov," his work appeared in leading Soviet Russian journals (Youth, Literary Gazette and Crocodile among the best known).
In 1974, blacklisted by the Soviet literary establishment for a satire on one of its members, he took advantage of the Jewish immigration and came to the United States, where his short stories and collections of humor quickly won him wide acclaim. Supervisor of the Sea presents his longer and more serious stories in a sequence that moves from Russia to America to the fantastic beyond.
Professor Draitser teaches at Hunter College in New York City.
Reviews
"Russian literature has never known such a book. In Draitser's stories, America and Russia are whimsically yet inseparably intertwined. Draitser's humor is so deeply philosophical that the reader doesn't notice at times where the comedy ends and the tragedy begins."
~ World Literature Today
"Draitser transforms an event into a story, and his method, which he has brought to mastery, consists in taking a situation to the point of absurdity and then making this absurdity a reality... Draitser's language is precise and expansive, his storyline is meticulously designed, his colors are rich."
~ Novoye Russkoye Slovo (The New Russian Word), New York
Editions
- Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books. ISBN 1-879378-47-7 (paper), 149 p.