1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution
Boris Dralyuk, "1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution"
English | ISBN: 1782272143 | 2016 | 236 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
English | ISBN: 1782272143 | 2016 | 236 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution is a collection of literary responses to one of the most cataclysmic events in modern world history, which exposes the immense conflictedness and doubt, conviction and hope, pessimism and optimism which political events provoked among contemporary writers - sometimes at the same time, even in the same person. This dazzling panorama of thought, language and form includes work by authors who are already well known to the English-speaking world (Bulgakov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky), as well as others, whose work we have the pleasure of encountering here for the very first time in English.
Edited by Boris Dralyuk, the acclaimed translator of Isaac Babel's
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