Written in the dark: five poets in the siege of Leningrad : Gennady Gor, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, Vladimir Sterligov, Pavel Zaltsman

Poetry. This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov wrote these works in 1942, during the most s...

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Hauptverfasser: Gor, Gennadij S. 1907-1981 (VerfasserIn), Maksimov, Dmitrij E. 1904-1987 (VerfasserIn), Rudakov, Sergey 1909-1944 (VerfasserIn), Sterligov, Vladimir V. 1904-1973 (VerfasserIn), Zalʹcman, Pavel Jakovlevič 1912-1985 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Barskova, Polina 1976- (HerausgeberIn), Kukulin, Ilʹja Vladimirovič 1969- (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts), Dibble, Anand (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Russian
Veröffentlicht: Brooklyn, NY Ugly Duckling Presse 2016
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Eastern European poets series 38
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Zusammenfassung:Poetry. This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov wrote these works in 1942, during the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944). In striking contrast to state-sanctioned, heroic "Blockade" poetry in which the stoic body of the exemplary citizen triumphs over death, the poems gathered here show the Siege individual (blokadnik) as a weak and desperate incarnation of Job. These poets wrote in situ about the famine, disease, madness, cannibalism, and prostitution around them—subjects so tabooed in those most-Soviet times that they would never think of publishing. Moreover, the formal ambition and macabre avant-gardism of this uncanny body of work match its horrific content, giving birth to a "poor" language which alone could reflect the depth of suffering and psychological destruction experienced by victims of that historical disaster
Beschreibung:159 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:1937027570
9781937027575

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