Barcelona Prose

Efim Etkind (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2022
Cherry Orchard Books (Verlag)
978-1-64469-791-7 (ISBN)

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Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the absurdity of a cultural-political experiment that destroyed his family’s life, his own career, and that of many of his colleagues. By the time of Etkind’s death, he did not rework these essays into a continuous narrative. Originally published in Russian, this first-ever English translation prepared by Etkind’s daughter presents his memoirs as a document of his time, without any changes or abridgements. The editors’ additions are limited to several notes, proofreading of quotes, and checking or inserting the full forms of the characters’ names.

Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.

In
Lieu of a Foreword

He
Outsmarted Us
Full
Repair!
The
Marquis de Lapunaise
The
Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
Looking
through the Walls
The
Double
Ferenc,
Count Batthyány
Ebensee
“On the Sly”
How
We Lived
“The
Blond Hidden in a Bottle”
Triumph
of Spirit
Up the Down Stairscase
It Turned Out Okay
About the Axe
Last Meeting
Pavel Antokolsky:
Generation of the Blind
Cousin
“The Other”
The Cowardice of a Brave
Man
Two Jewish Fates: Reading
the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
“Youth in a Military
Blouse” of My Contemporary

Afterword: A Knight of Culture by David Bethea
List of Names

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2022
Nachwort	David Bethea
Übersetzer	Helen Reeve, Joyse Man, Julia Trubikhina
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	24 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-64469-791-2 / 1644697912
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-791-7 / 9781644697917
Zustand	Neuware