Nikolai Zabolotsky - Play for Mortal Stakes

Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first significant poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote poetry both highly experimental and classical. This book, first published in 1994, was the first critical biography of Zabolotsky to appear in English. Goldstein examines not only Zabolotsky's poetic career but also his life, from his obscure origins in the Russian countryside to his arrest and imprisonment in the 1930s. At the same time, Goldstein highlights the deep ambiguity of Zabolotsky's era by exploring the ways in which the poet was influenced both by the artistic avant-garde and by the Soviet scientific establishment.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Emergence; 2. The last Russian modernist; 3. Visions of a brave new world; 4. Mad wisdom: the long poems; 5. Autumnal observations; Appendix; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

Summary

Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903–1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote both experimental and classical poetry. This book, first published in 1994, was the first critical biography of Zabolotsky to appear in English.

Product details

• Authors: Darra Goldstein, Goldstein Darra
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.1994
• EAN: 9780521418966
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41896-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Illustrations: 12 b/w illus., Raster, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Ideology; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet