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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Vladislav Khodasevich , Sarah Vitali , David M. BetheaPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231187053ISBN 10: 023118705 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 28 May 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsTranslator’s Acknowledgments Introduction, by David Bethea Foreword 1. The Death of Renate 2. Bryusov 3. Andrei Bely 4. Muni 5. Gumilyov and Blok 6. Gershenzon 7. Sologub 8. Esenin 9. Gorky Translator’s Notes Index of NamesReviewsAn incisive set of memoirs of leading lights of Russian Symbolism and its aftermath (1890s-1920s). Khodasevich's intimate accounts of several writers (Briusov, Bely, Blok, Esenin, Gorky, and lesser figures) are framed within the notion of life-creation, which he deems crucial to a conceptualization of the modernist period. A stylish, inventive translation of a key text.--Robert P. Hughes, University of California, Berkeley In Necropolis, the migr poet Vladislav Khodasevich looks back--now wistfully, now bitterly--on the major writers and movements of Russian culture in the pre- and immediate post-revolutionary years. In Sarah Vitali's splendid translation, this masterpiece of memoir literature is finally accessible to the Anglophone reader.--Michael Wachtel, Princeton University An incisive set of memoirs of leading lights of Russian Symbolism and its aftermath (1890s-1920s). Khodasevich's intimate accounts of several writers (Briusov, Bely, Blok, Esenin, Gorky, and lesser figures) are framed within the notion of life-creation, which he deems crucial to a conceptualization of the modernist period. A stylish, inventive translation of a key text.--Robert P. Hughes, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationVladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939) was a major figure in twentieth-century Russian poetry as well as an accomplished critic and translator. Born into a Polish Catholic noble family in Moscow, he spent his later life in Berlin and Paris. Sarah Vitali is a translator and PhD candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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