J. A. E. Curtis

The Englishman from Lebedian (eBook, PDF)

A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin

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Produktbeschreibung

Julie Curtis is a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where she has been teaching Russian since 1991. She is the author of two books about Evgeny Zamiatin's close friend and contemporary Mikhail Bulgakov, including a biography (Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov-A Life in Letters and Diaries). She also has a particular interest in Russian drama from Pushkin to the present day. In the course of her research on Zamiatin's life she discovered a unique original typescript of his most famous novel, the science-fiction anti-utopia We (1920), which George Orwell read and admired as he was planning his own Nineteen Eighty Four. Her scholarly edition of Zamiatin's We, co-edited with Marina Liubimova, was published in St Petersburg in 2011, and provided Russian readers for the first time with an authentic text of this classic work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618116925
• Artikelnr.: 54274319

Autorenporträt

Julie Curtis is a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where she has been teaching Russian since 1991. She is the author of two books about Evgeny Zamiatin¿s close friend and contemporary Mikhail Bulgakov, including a biography (Manuscripts Don¿t Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov¿A Life in Letters and Diaries). She also has a particular interest in Russian drama from Pushkin to the present day. In the course of her research on Zamiatin¿s life she discovered a unique original typescript of his most famous novel, the science-fiction anti-utopia We (1920), which George Orwell read and admired as he was planning his own Nineteen Eighty Four. Her scholarly edition of Zamiatin¿s We, co-edited with Marina Liubimova, was published in St Petersburg in 2011, and provided Russian readers for the first time with an authentic text of this classic work.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations VIII Introduction 1 Chapter 1: From Lebedian
to St Petersburg (1884-1906) 6 Chapter 2: From Astrakhan to Arkhangel
sk (1906-1916) 25 Chapter 3: From Petrograd to Newcastle upon Tyne (1916-1917) 51 Chapter 4: Petrograd (1917-1921) 86 Chapter 5: Petrograd/Leningrad (1922-1925) 117 Chapter 6: Leningrad (1926-1929) 154 Chapter 7: From Koktebel
to the Warsaw Station (1929-1931) 198 Chapter 8: From Riga to Cagnes (1931-1932) 225 Chapter 9: Paris (1933-1937) 258 Conclusion 307 Bibliography 357 Acknowledgments 373 Index 375