| Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd Contributor(s): Gibian, George (Author), Kharms, Daniil (Author), Vvedensky, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393007235 ISBN-13: 9780393007237 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1974 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.730 |
| LCCN: 73022153 |
| Series: Norton Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5" W x 8" (0.54 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gibian, George: - George Gibian was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He was the author of The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd, The Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature During the Thaw, and Tolstoj and Shakespeare. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and Gogol's Dead Souls, and of the Viking Penguin Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Professor Gibian's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among others. |