Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era / Yasha Klots.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klots, Yasha, author.

Series:

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism--Foreign countries--20th century.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book is devoted to the history of literary exchanges between publishers, critics, and readers in the West with authors in Russia during the Cold War. Tamizdat are manuscripts rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication at home but smuggled through various channels out of the country and printed elsewhere with or without their authors' knowledge or consent."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad

Anna Akhmatova's Requiem and the Thaw : A View from Abroad

Lydia Chukovskaia's Sofia Petrovna and Going Under : Fictionalizing Stalin's Purges

Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales : The Gulag in Search of a Genre

Epilogue : The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501768989

1501768980

9781501768972

1501768972

OCLC:

1351567801