Barcelona Prose

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union.

List of contents

In
Lieu of a Foreword

He
Outsmarted Us
Full
Repair!
The
Marquis de Lapunaise
The
Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
Looking
through the Walls
The
Double
Ferenc,
Count Batthyány
Ebensee
¿On the Sly¿
How
We Lived
¿The
Blond Hidden in a Bottle¿
Triumph
of Spirit
Up the Down Stairscase
It Turned Out Okay
About the Axe
Last Meeting
Pavel Antokolsky:
Generation of the Blind
Cousin
¿The Other¿
The Cowardice of a Brave
Man
Two Jewish Fates: Reading
the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
¿Youth in a Military
Blouse¿ of My Contemporary

Afterword: A Knight of Culture by David Bethea
List of Names

About the author

Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.

Summary

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union.

Product details

• Authors: Efim Etkind
• Assisted by: David Bethea (Afterword), Joyse Man (Translation), Helen Reeve (Translation), Julia Trubikhina (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2022
• EAN: 9781644697900
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-790-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 35 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary essays, USSR, Soviet Union, Literature: history and criticism, Political oppression and persecution, Society and Social Sciences