Journey on a hospital bed : Lev Lunts & the Serapion Brothers : articles, correspondence & memoirs / translated and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Gary Kern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lunt︠s︡, Lev, 1901-1924, author.

Contributor:

Kern, Gary, translator, editor.

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Series:

Lunt︠s︡, Lev, 1901-1924. English. 2014 ; Works. vol. 3.

Collected works in three volumes ; volume 3

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Lunt︠s︡, Lev, 1901-1924--Correspondence.

Lunt︠s︡, Lev.

Lunt︠s︡, Lev, 1901-1924.

Authors, Russian--Soviet Union--Correspondence.

Authors, Russian.

Serapion Brotherhood (Literary movement).

Russian literature--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--Soviet Union--Jewish authors.

Jewish authors.

Soviet Union.

Russian literature--Jewish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Records and correspondence.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Las Cruces] : Xenos Books, [2016]

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

"The title work, "Journey On a Hospital Bed" (1924), a memoir by the Russian writer Lev Lunts, together with articles, letters and stories by the same author. To these are added articles and letters by 20-30 Russian writers with whom Lev Lunts was associated. The total contents consist of 13 articles from 1921-1966, 88 letters from 1923-1924, one long memoir from 1924, and 2 stories from 1921 & 1924, all (with one exception) translated from Russian into English for the first time. Illustrated by approx. 50 photographs of people and 10 reproductions of manuscripts, most from the 1920s. All the articles relate to the group "The Serapion Brothers" and the literary scene in St. Petersburg in the early 1920s. All the correspondence dates from 1923-1924, when Lev Lunts lay dying in a sanatorium and hospital in Germany"--Publisher info.

Contents:

Serapionic evenings

Lev Lunts correspondence

Memoir.

Notes:

"Volume III: memoir and correspondence"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Contains:

Lunt͡s, Lev, 1901-1924. Puteshestvie na bolʹnichnoĭ koĭke. English.

ISBN:

9781879378834

1879378833

OCLC:

914156962

Publisher Number:

99967527750