The Russian Jerusalem [electronic resource]
Feinstein, Elaine2011
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Beginning in present-day St Petersburg, The Russian Jerusalem explores the landscape of twentieth century Russian literature. In this evocative autobiographical novel, distinguished poet, translator, novelist and biographer Elaine Feinstein moves among the dead poets of Stalin's Russia with the poet Marina Tsvetaeva as her Virgil, mingling with the ghosts of writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky. These imaginary encounters are interspersed with new poems by Feinstein. The author, herself of Russian descent, reconstructs the lives and fates of Russian, often Jewish, writers during the long age of Soviet terror, re-establishing them at the heart of the European tradition.
Main title:
The Russian Jerusalem [electronic resource] / Elaine Feinstein
Author:
Feinstein, Elaine, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Fiction, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781847777843
Language:
English
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BRN:
2836788
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