1917

Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution

Boris Dralyuk, X Various Authors (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-214-4 (ISBN)

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An exciting new collection of responses to the Revolution, by some of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century.

100 years since the Russian Revolution: the 20th century's greatest Russian writers respond

'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'

The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in the full tumult of the Russian Revolution.

From apocalyptic visions to heartfelt calls for freedom, from depictions of bloody carnage to an acerbic portrait of Lenin, the writings brought together here are by turns fervent, absurd, disorienting and tragic.

Some writers - Bulgakov, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova - are well-known, others all but forgotten; many would not survive what was to come. All speak to us a century later, re-creating the whirlwind of euphoria and terror, hopes and betrayals of that exhilarating, brutal time.

Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He is a co-editor of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and has translated Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, both of which are published by Pushkin Press.

1917: LITERATURE FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
DRAFT TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE REVOLUTION: A POEM-CHRONICLE
STOLEN WINE
Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘You stepped from a stately cathedral ’, ‘Night. – Northeaster. – Roar of soldiers. – Roar of waves.’
Zinaida Gippius, ‘Now’, ‘What have we done to it?’, ‘14 December 1917’
Osip Mandelstam, ‘In public and behind closed doors’
A DISTANT VOICE
Osip Mandelstam, ‘Let’s praise, O brothers, liberty’s dim light’
Anna Akhmatova, ‘When the nation, suicidal’
Boris Pasternak, ‘Spring Rain’
WAKE ME TOMORROW
Mikhail Kuzmin, ‘Russian Revolution’
Sergey Esenin, ‘Wake me tomorrow at break of day’
IRON FLOWERS
Mikhail Gerasimov, ‘I forged my iron flowers’
Vladimir Kirillov, ‘We’
Aleksey Kraysky, ‘Decrees’
PURIFYING FIRE
Andrey Bely, ‘Russia’
Alexander Blok, ‘The Twelve’
Titsian Tabidze, ‘Petersburg’
Pavlo Tychyna, ‘Golden Humming’
OUR MARCH
Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle’, ‘To Russia’, ‘Our March’
PROSE
THE BREAK
Alexander Kuprin, ‘Sashka and Yashka’
Valentin Kataev, ‘The Drum’
OPEN ARMS
Aleksandr Serafimovich, ‘How He Died’
Dovid Bergelson, ‘Pictures of the Revolution’
THE GUILLOTINE
Teffi, ‘A Few Words About Lenin’, ‘The Guillotine’
APOCALYPSE
Vasily Rozanov, from ‘Apocalypse of Our Time’
Aleksey Remizov, ‘The Lay of the Ruin of Rus’’
OF DRAGONS AND MEN
Yefim Zozulya, ‘The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity’
Yevgeny Zamyatin, ‘The Dragon’
THE TERROR
Aleksandr Grin, ‘Uprising’
Mikhail Prishvin, ‘Blue Banner’
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Mikhail Zoshchenko, ‘A Wonderful Audacity’
Mikhail Bulgakov, ‘Future Prospects’

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2016
Übersetzer	X Various Authors
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-78227-214-3 / 1782272143
ISBN-13	978-1-78227-214-4 / 9781782272144
Zustand	Neuware