1917 Stories and Poems: Selected by Boris Dralyuk Anna Aslanyan reviews this brilliantly curated selection of poems and stories that were written during and immediately after the 1917 revolution. This new selection is also published by Pushkin Press who are fighting the good fight when it comes to new translations of classic literature: “Don’t you find that too much poetry is being written?” Vladimir Lenin once asked Maxim Gorky, referring to the literary scene of the young Soviet state. The writer replied that it was natural to turn to poetry in times of great upheaval. 1917, an anthology published to commemorate the forthcoming centenary of the Russian Revolution, is proof of that; a third of it is devoted to poetry and, compared to the rest, it is the poems that paint the more vivid portrait of their era. Written between early 1917 and late 1919, these pieces are immediate reactions to the cataclysmic period that saw the overthrow of the Russian monarchy, the October Revolution and the devastating civil war. […] The works and fates of these authors create an image of hope and despair, struggle and exile, triumph and death. Even as the revolution devoured its own writers, they remained its chroniclers. A century on, their writings — some revisited, some resurrected in this collection — can be read as historical documents, but also for their sheer literary value. The best of them bear a mark of the process described by Kuzmin: ‘Tough sandpaper has polished all our words.’” Read the full review in the Financial Times here: http://on.ft.com/2fPCNNE
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1917 Stories and Poems: Selected by Boris Dralyuk
Anna Aslanyan reviews this brilliantly curated selection of poems and stories that were written during and immediately after the 1917 revolution. This new selection is also published by Pushkin Press who are fighting the good fight when it comes to new translations of classic literature: “Don’t you find that too much poetry is being written?” Vladimir Lenin once asked Maxim Gorky, referring to the literary scene of the young Soviet state. The writer replied that it was natural to turn to poetry in times of great upheaval. 1917, an anthology published to commemorate the forthcoming centenary of the Russian Revolution, is proof of that; a third of it is devoted to poetry and, compared to the rest, it is the poems that paint the more vivid portrait of their era.
Written between early 1917 and late 1919, these pieces are immediate reactions to the cataclysmic period that saw the overthrow of the Russian monarchy, the October Revolution and the devastating civil war.
[…]
The works and fates of these authors create an image of hope and despair, struggle and exile, triumph and death. Even as the revolution devoured its own writers, they remained its chroniclers. A century on, their writings — some revisited, some resurrected in this collection — can be read as historical documents, but also for their sheer literary value. The best of them bear a mark of the process described by Kuzmin: ‘Tough sandpaper has polished all our words.’” Read the full review in the Financial Times here: http://on.ft.com/2fPCNNE
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Libreria1917 Stories and Poems: Selected by Boris Dralyuk
Anna Aslanyan reviews this brilliantly curated selection of poems and stories that were written during and immediately after the 1917 revolution. This new selection is also published by Pushkin Press who are fighting the good fight when it comes to new translations of classic literature: “Don’t you find that too much poetry is being written?” Vladimir Lenin once asked Maxim Gorky, referring to the literary scene of the young Soviet state. The writer replied that it was natural to turn to poetry in times of great upheaval. 1917, an anthology published to commemorate the forthcoming centenary of the Russian Revolution, is proof of that; a third of it is devoted to poetry and, compared to the rest, it is the poems that paint the more vivid portrait of their era.
Written between early 1917 and late 1919, these pieces are immediate reactions to the cataclysmic period that saw the overthrow of the Russian monarchy, the October Revolution and the devastating civil war.
[…]
The works and fates of these authors create an image of hope and despair, struggle and exile, triumph and death. Even as the revolution devoured its own writers, they remained its chroniclers. A century on, their writings — some revisited, some resurrected in this collection — can be read as historical documents, but also for their sheer literary value. The best of them bear a mark of the process described by Kuzmin: ‘Tough sandpaper has polished all our words.’” Read the full review in the Financial Times here: http://on.ft.com/2fPCNNE
#libreria #libreriarecommends #libtriptych #ftreviews #pushkinpress #thewritingsonthekremlinwall
