Etkind Barcelona Prose

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64469-793-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Etkind, Efim

Weitere Mitwirkende

Reeve, Helen

Man, Joyse

Trubikhina, Julia

Bethea, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

In Lieu of a Foreword
He Outsmarted Us
Full Repair!
The Marquis de Lapunaise
The Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
Looking through the Walls
The Double
Ferenc, Count Batthyány
Ebensee
“On the Sly”
How We Lived
“The Blond Hidden in a Bottle”
Triumph of Spirit
Up the Down Stairscase
It Turned Out Okay
About the Axe
Last Meeting
Pavel Antokolsky: Generation of the Blind
Cousin
“The Other”
The Cowardice of a Brave Man
Two Jewish Fates: Reading the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
“Youth in a Military Blouse” of My Contemporary

Afterword: A Knight of Culture by David Bethea
List of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Etkind Efim:
Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.