Russian modernism in the memories of the survivors : the Duvakin interviews, 1967-1974

Russian modernism in the memories of the survivors : the Duvakin interviews, 1967-1974 /

"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival...

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Other Authors: Duvakin, V. D. (Interviewer), Gratchev, Slav N. (Editor, Translator), Evdokimova, Irina, 1976- (Editor), Marinova, Margarita (Margarita D.) (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021
Subjects:
Authors, Soviet > Interviews.
Artists > Soviet Union > Interviews.
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Interviews.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Revolution of the Word and Its Context / Dmitry Sporov
  • Dialogue 1: With Victor Ardov on 6 August 1974. How Sergei Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means
  • Dialogue 2: With Victor Ardov on 19 August 1974. On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s-1930s
  • Dialogue 3: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 18 June 1969. On the failed duel in defence of Marina Tsvetaeva and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris
  • Dialogue 4: With Roman Jakobson on 21 August 1967. On Jakobson's friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • Dialogue 5: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 21 June 1969
  • On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on OlĂ©ron Island, and working at the United Nations.

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