Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters

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."

List 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 PETERSBURG WINTERS Notes

About the author

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.

Summary

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.”

Product details

• Authors: Georgii Ivanov, Georgy Ivanov, Efraim Sicher
• Assisted by: Jerome Katsell (Translation), Stanislav Shvabrin (Translation)
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781618114549
• ISBN: 978-1-61811-454-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 622 g
• Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia i; Cultural Revolutions: Russia i; Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies