News at Eleven: For [Marat] Grinberg, however, [Boris] Slutsky's own

poetry takes on religious symbolic meanings, which he uncovers using a modern critical apparatus and by invoking the authority of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan and Harold Bloom, among others. Unlike most Russian critics, who treat Slutsky as a poetic voice representing the war generation, Grinberg seeks to unearth deeper layers of meaning by "interrogating Slutsky's poetry in a hermeneutic Judaic mode." By applying his method vigorously and provocatively, Grinberg presents Slutsky as a demiurge whose "poetry forms a unified cosmos in which metapoetics flows into historiography and vice versa."

from The Jewish Daily Forward: More Moses Than Job

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