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Necropolis (Hardcover)
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Necropolis (Hardcover)
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Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav
Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian
poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich
memorializes a significant figure of Russia's literary Silver Age,
and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.
Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s following
the deaths of its subjects, Necropolis is a literary graveyard in
which an entire movement, Russian Symbolism, is buried. Recalling
figures including Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Fyodor Sologub,
and the socialist realist Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich tells the story
of how their lives and artworks intertwined, including a
notoriously tempestuous love triangle among Nina Petrovskaya,
Valery Bryusov, and Andrei Bely. He testifies to the seductive and
often devastating power of the Symbolist attempt to turn one's life
into a work of art and, ultimately, how one man was left with the
task of memorializing his fellow artists after their deaths.
Khodasevich's portraits deal with revolution, disillusionment,
emigration, suicide, the vocation of the poet, and the place of the
artist in society. One of the greatest memoirs in Russian
literature, Necropolis is a compelling work from an overlooked
writer whose gifts for observation and irony show the early
twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new and more intimate
light.
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