Zalman Shneour's Inaugural Novel: A Story Of Suicide In The Form Of A Diaryin A Yiddish Take On Notes From Underground, A Dark Love Affair Develops In An Unnamed Eastern European City Between The Young, Impoverished, Violently Self-loathing Teacher, Shloyme-and A Hungry, Spiteful And Unsettlingly Sensual Revolver. Ostensibly Purchased To Protect Shloyme From The Pogroms Sweeping The Empire, The Weapon Instead Opens A Portal To His Innermost Demons, And Through It He Begins His Methodical Mission To Eradicate Any Remnants Of Life And Humanity In Him And Pave The Way For His Self-destruction. A Death Takes The Form Of A Diary That Follows The Jewish Calendar.written In Yiddish In 1905 And Published With Immediate Success In Warsaw In 1909, A Death Utilizes The Influences Of Dostoyevsky And Schopenhauer To Depict A Distinctly Jewish Experience Of Uprooted Modernity, And Presents A Lesser-known Strand Of Jewish Decadent Literature.