Nikolai Zabolotsky
Play for Mortal Stakes
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Darra Goldstein, Williams College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: April 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025690
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Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-1958) was one of the great poets of twentieth-century Russia. As the last link in the Russian Futurist tradition and the first poet to come of age in the Soviet period, Zabolotsky wrote both experimental and classical poetry. This is the first critical biography of Zabolotsky to appear in English. Goldstein examines not only his poetic career but also his life, highlighting the deep ambiguity of Zabolotsky's era by exploring the ways in which the poet was influenced both by the artistic avant-garde and by the Soviet scientific establishment.
Read more- Zabolotsky was a great twentieth-century Russian poet, about whom very little has yet been published
- First critical biography on Zabolotsky to appear in English
- While previous critics have tended to see Zabolotsky in terms of either his early or his late work, Goldstein aims to understand his poetry as a whole, relating it to his personal experience and to outside influences
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"Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Moral Stakes is a major step in introducing to the western reader a poet who is second to none in the twentieth century, in Russia or elsewhere." Victor Terras, World Literature Today
See more reviews"Goldstein has written a highly erudite book about a difficult subject...she is also impressive in explaining the many references to the Russian classics in his works...Highly recommended for collections in Russian literature and utopian studies." B. Beynen, Choice
"Thanks to the efforts of Darra Goldstein, one of the most confusing and frequently misunderstood poets of the Soviet era is now a quantum leap closer to the realm of the comprehensible....Goldstein has produced a book that will shape Zabolotskii studies for years to come." Sarah Pratt, Russian Review
"...Darra Goldstein's Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes, the first critical biography of the poet to appear in English, is an important, and long overdue, contribution to our understanding of a previously underrated, and rarely read, poet. For the foreseeable future, it will be required reading for anyone writing about, or teaching, Zabolockij....Play for Mortal Stakes should provide the impetus for further research and interpretation of Zabolockij's life and poetry." Anthony Anemone, Slavic and East European Journal
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- Date Published: April 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025690
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Emergence
2. The last Russian modernist
3. Visions of a brave new world
4. Mad wisdom: the long poems
5. Autumnal observations
Appendix
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.
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