Weep Not for the Dead

Matveev, Michel (pseud. for Joseph Constant ) (translated from the French by Desmond Flower)

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935

[nice tight copy, just a touch of soiling to bottom edges of covers, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is lightly edgeworn, minor surface-scuffing and light soiling, small sticker remnants at top of front flap, some vertical creasing in rear flap]. Novel by a Ukranian-born writer who made his way (eventually) to Paris following the Russian Revolution. The story he tells, narrated by a Jewish singer of folksongs, parallels his own experience: "an agonizing odyssey endured by Russian Jews; of pogroms depriving them of their homes, of persecution in the lands to which they fled; of punishment without crime and poverty without prospects; and worst, most suffocating of all, the everlasting sensation, in Russia and Roumania, Egypt and France, of being spied upon, of being discriminated against -- of being hounded." The author (1892-1969) was a sculptor and painter, who adopted the Matveev pseudonym for his writing; this novel was originally published in France in 1933, as "Les Traqués.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 25682

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Weep Not for the Dead
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1935
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Near Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj
Auflage: First American Edition.