Kuchlya: Decembrist Poet. A Novel

di Yuri Tynianov (Autore)

Anna Kurkina Rush (Traduttore)

Peter France (Traduttore)

Academic Studies Press, 2021

The poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Kuchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

• Autore: Yuri Tynianov
• Traduttore: Anna Kurkina Rush, Peter France
• Editore: Academic Studies Press
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 396 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781644696859

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