Deborah Feldman recounts her childhood growing up in the Hasidic Satmar society in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and her eventual exodus from the community. Her constant self-reflection guides readers to a greater understanding of both the Satmar community and her evolving positionality as she grows up-and-out of Williamsburg. Even though Feldman’s story is likely different from her […]
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Julian Barnes’ novel The Noise of Time is a fictional narrative, recounting the relationship between Stalin’s Soviet Union and Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. “If the plan to take a worker from the coal face and turn him into a composer of symphonies did not exactly come to pass, something of the reverse happened. A composer was expected to
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Julian Barnes’ novel The Noise of Time is a fictional narrative, recounting the relationship between Stalin’s Soviet Union and composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The narrative’s organization is reflective of Shostakovich’s personality—precise and anxious. The novel begins with the proverb: “One to hear One to remember And one to drink.” The narrative opens with a brief scene
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