Viacheslav Ivanov : a symbolist life / Michael Wachtel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wachtel, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ivanov, V. I. (Vi︠a︡cheslav Ivanovich), 1866-1949.

Ivanov, V. I.

Authors, Russian--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Symbolism in literature.

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

Russian literature.

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 703 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, facsimiles : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Viacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949) was a, arguably the, major thinker of the Russian Symbolist movement. His influence, however, stretched much farther: poets of all "schools" vied for his attention and approval, including such luminaries as the Acmeists Osip Mandelshtam and Anna Akhmatova and the Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov. The legendary all-night Wednesday gatherings at his "Tower" apartment attracted the foremost writers, leading actors and directors (the avant-garde innovator Vsevelod Meyerhold, who staged a play at the "Tower"), philosophers (Nikolai Berdyaev), scholars (Mikhail Rostovtseff), and even Marxist revolutionaries (Anatoly Lunacharsky, later the first Bolshevik Commissar of People's Enlightenment). His ideas resonated for decades in both the emigration and the Soviet Union. A poet of genius, scholar of antiquity, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher across half a dozen national cultures, Ivanov has an astonishing story that has never yet been fully assembled. His erudition was unmatched in Russia and probably in Europe. His biography, marked by the cataclysmic events of his time, is fascinating both in itself and as a cultural history of Europe in miniature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Beginnings (1866-1893)

A Dionysian thunderstorm (1894-1897)

European wanderings (1897-1902)

Into the fray (1903-1905)

The tower (1905-1906)

Experiments in life and art (1906-1907)

The "mystical period" (1907-1909)

The crisis of symbolism (1909-1910)

A charismatic mentor (1910-1911)

The tender mystery (1912-1913)

Moscow (1913-1915)

War and revolution (1915-1917)

Life under the Bolsheviks (1917-1920)

Baku (1920-1924)

From Moscow to Rome (1924-1925)

Religious questions (1926-1927)

A cosmopolitan Russian (1927-1929)

A European intellectual (1929-1934)

Return to Rome (1934-1938)

The final decade (1939-1949).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [619]-690) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Wachtel, Michael. Viacheslav Ivanov.

ISBN:

9780231218375

0231218370

OCLC:

1464022958

Publisher Number:

CIPO000243908