Slutskaia litaraturnaia daunina
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Slutsk Literary Antiquity is the title of another book by Slutsk resident Anatoly Zhuk, which was published by the Minsk publishing house "Kolorgrad" in early April this year.
255 pages of text and 12 pages of photo illustrations of the book are dedicated to Slutsk writers of the 15th–19th centuries (born no later than 1900). The author's field of vision included not only natives of the Slutsk region, but also those writers whose life paths passed through local places, and who did not ignore the Sluch region and its inhabitants in their work.
Most writers originally from the Sluch region had such a fate that they had to live and work outside of Belarus: in the United States of America, Israel, Poland, and Russia. Their names have not been lost in European, Asian, or American literary spaces, although many remained little known in their homeland, and some were not remembered here at all. Will the names of Slutsk natives Yaakov Kahan and Yitzhak Dov Berkovich, for example, tell the residents of the Sluch region much? And these are the winners of the Israel State Prize for Literature (Kahan – twice). The novels and short stories of Adam Plugo from Zamosc in many ways “prepared the ground for the prose of Polish critical realism of the second half of the 19th century”. In Warsaw, he was the editor-in-chief of the “Great Universal Illustrated Encyclopedia”. A native of Slutsk, Avrom Epstein, who lived in the USA, was considered by his contemporaries to be among those “who shaped the image of modern Jewish literature”, and was called the “gardener” of Hebrew-speaking America. The University of Texas at Austin houses the library of Elias Tabenkin, a journalist and writer from Slutsk. He corresponded with American writers Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1930).
