Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors : The Duvakin Interviews, 1967-1974 / edited by Slav N. Gratchev, [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gratchev, Slav N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists such as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Marina Tsvetaeva. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Archival photographs, as well as hundreds of annotations to the text, are included to help readers understand the historical and cultural context of the interviews. The unique and previously unpublished materials in Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors will be of great interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating period in Soviet history."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Revolution of the Word and Its Context / Dmitry Sporov

Dialogue 1: With Victor Ardov on 6 August 1974. How Sergei Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means

Dialogue 2: With Victor Ardov on 19 August 1974. On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s-1930s

Dialogue 3: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 18 June 1969. On the failed duel in defence of Marina Tsvetaeva and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris

Dialogue 4: With Roman Jakobson on 21 August 1967. On Jakobson's friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky

Dialogue 5: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 21 June 1969

On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on Oleron Island, and working at the United Nations.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-2726-8

1-4875-2727-6

OCLC:

1240501506