Pavel Lembersky Livres

The talented Pavel Lembersky, Jewish Odessan heritage pulsing in his literary arteries, adroitly talks the Russian expat talk as he walks the American immigrant walk. Lembersky’s verbal art is nothing short of a wonder. Once a Soviet teenager quickly outfitted to write original American prose, Lembersky has steadfastly followed the example of the leading lights of early Russian émigré literature — Aldanov, Berberova, Gazdanov — by refusing to trade in his Russian quill pen even after decades of living in America. The Death of Samusis generously showcases Lembersky’s achievement as a writer of shorter fiction — a fearless chronicler of exile, a loving absurdist of desire, a paradoxist of life’s endless bifurcation (Maxim D. Shrayer). Funny, unique and completely unpredictable, The Death of Samusis, takes you on a wild journey through transitional states of mind, inspired by all kinds of Russian vs American, Male vs Female, Old vs New (Lara Vapnyar).

Completely multilingual internationally focused magazine of fiction, poems, essays, reasoned rants, journalism, cartoons/comics, & photography. Of course, Portland, Oregon based. Each piece appears in 2 to 5 languages, incl. cartoons/comics. This issue features work from US, Danish, Morrocan, Spanish, Albanian, Lithuanian, Iranian, Russian, Austrian & Argentine writers.

In Lemberskys Erzählungen begegnen wir skurrilen Figuren wie Emigranten, Geschäftsleuten und Intellektuellen, die das Fremdsein als selbstverständlich empfinden. Humorvoll und realistisch beleuchtet er das Missverhältnis zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit bei russisch-jüdischen Einwanderern in Amerika und ihren Erlebnissen in Odessa, Moskau und New York.