Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.” Read More
Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.” Read More
This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. Petersburg Winters (1928/1952) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanov’s contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam.
Details
Price: $32.00
Pages: 304
Carton Quantity: 26
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Publication Date: 25th July 2017
Trim Size: 6.14 x 9.21 in
ISBN: 9781618115621
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / Russian & Former Soviet Union FICTION / Literary BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Author Bio
Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and is an independent scholar and translator.
Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
On Transliteration, Sources, and Annotation
Introduction: “. . . Struck by all the horrors of human disillusionment . . .”:
Miseries and Splendors of Georgy Ivanov’s “Citational” Prose DISINTEGRATION OF THE ATOM
This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. Petersburg Winters (1928/1952) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanov’s contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 304
Carton Quantity: 26
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Publication Date: 25th July 2017
Trim Size: 6.14 x 9.21 in
ISBN: 9781618115621
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / Russian & Former Soviet Union FICTION / Literary BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and is an independent scholar and translator.
Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acknowledgments
On Transliteration, Sources, and Annotation
Introduction: “. . . Struck by all the horrors of human disillusionment . . .”:
Miseries and Splendors of Georgy Ivanov’s “Citational” Prose DISINTEGRATION OF THE ATOM
