Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian literary circle : culture and survival in revolutionary times / Barbara Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Barbara, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich, 1877-1932--Friends and associates.

Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

Russian literature--Societies, etc.

Russian literature.

Intellectuals--Russia--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Soviet Union--History.

Literature and state--Russia.

Literature and state.

Literature and state--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this book, Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932). From 1911 until his death, Voloshin led a circle in the Crimean village of Koktebel' that was a haven for such literary luminaries as Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Gumilev, and Osip Mandelshtam. Drawing upon the anthropological theories of Victor Turner, Walker depicts the literary circle of late Imperial Russia as a contradictory mix of idealism and "communitas," on the one hand, and traditional Russian patterns of patronage and networking, on the other." "While detailing the colorful history of Voloshinov's circle in the pre- and postrevolutionary decades, the book demonstrates that the literary circle and its leaders played a key role in integrating the intelligentsia into the emerging ethos of the Soviet state."--Jacket

Contents:

Voloshin's social and cultural origins

The Russian symbolists and their circles

Voloshin and the modernist problem of the ugly poetess

The Koktebel' dacha circle

Insiders and outsiders, gossip and mythology : from communitas toward network node

Voloshin carves power out of fear

Voloshin carves power, cont'd, and the broader context and implications of his activities

Inside Voloshin's Soviet circle : persistence of structure, preservation of anti-structure

Collapse of a patronage network and Voloshin's death.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072321

9781282072329

1282072323

9780253110435

0253110432

OCLC:

475961946

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05306 hdl