Necropolis

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir from Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as ¿the greatest Russian poet of our time.¿ In each of the book¿s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russiäs literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.

List of contents

Translator’s Acknowledgments
Introduction, by David Bethea
Foreword
1. The Death of Renate
2. Bryusov
3. Andrei Bely
4. Muni
5. Gumilyov and Blok
6. Gershenzon
7. Sologub
8. Esenin
9. Gorky
Translator’s Notes
Index of Names

About the author

Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939) was a major figure in twentieth-century Russian poetry as well as an accomplished critic and translator. Born into a Polish Catholic noble family in Moscow, he spent his later life in Berlin and Paris.

Sarah Vitali is a translator and PhD candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University.

Summary

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir from Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.

Additional text

In Necropolis, the émigré poet Vladislav Khodasevich looks back—now wistfully, now bitterly—on the major writers and movements of Russian culture in the pre- and immediate postrevolutionary years. In Sarah Vitali’s splendid translation, this masterpiece of memoir literature is finally accessible to the Anglophone reader.

Product details

• Authors: Vladislav Khodasevich
• Assisted by: David M. Bethea (Introduction), Bethea David M. (Introduction), Sarah Vitali (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780231187046
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18704-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Russian Library; Russian Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, FICTION / Literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet, Russian literary collections; personal memoirs