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Necropolis (Paperback)
Vladislav Khodasevich; Translated by Sarah Vitali; Introduction by David M. Bethea
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R441
R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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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.
Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet
dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what,
Petr A. Druzhinin asks, happened to those academics who did not
form part of this circle? Through its intimate portrayal of the
persecution of non-dissident literary scholar Konstantin Azadovsky,
The Soviet Suppression of Academia sheds new light on the
relationship between power and culture in Soviet Russia. Based on
rare access to KGB materials and other sources, this book traces
Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1960s, when he refused to become
a KGB informant, to his arrest on trumped-up drug charges and
imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s, to his struggle for
rehabilitation through the early 1990s. Here, for the first time in
English, one of the KGB’s secret operations against a prominent
intellectual is revealed in full, horrific detail. By telling the
fascinating story of an individual's struggle with the powerful
state machine, this book provides much-needed insight into the
experience of life under KGB monitoring and repression and adds
nuance to ongoing debates about the relationship between Soviet
intellectuals and the state.
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Necropolis (Hardcover)
Vladislav Khodasevich; Translated by Sarah Vitali; Introduction by David M. Bethea
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R773
R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
Save R107 (14%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet
dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what,
Petr A. Druzhinin asks, happened to those academics who did not
form part of this circle? Through its intimate portrayal of the
persecution of non-dissident literary scholar Konstantin Azadovsky,
The Soviet Suppression of Academia sheds new light on the
relationship between power and culture in Soviet Russia. Based on
rare access to KGB materials and other sources, this book traces
Azadovsky’s persecution from the 1960s, when he refused to become
a KGB informant, to his arrest on trumped-up drug charges and
imprisonment in a labour camp in the 1980s, to his struggle for
rehabilitation through the early 1990s. Here, for the first time in
English, one of the KGB’s secret operations against a prominent
intellectual is revealed in full, horrific detail. By telling the
fascinating story of an individual's struggle with the powerful
state machine, this book provides much-needed insight into the
experience of life under KGB monitoring and repression and adds
nuance to ongoing debates about the relationship between Soviet
intellectuals and the state.
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