Küchlya

Decembrist Poet. A Novel

von Yuri Tynianov

396 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9781644696842
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2021
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Cherry Orchard Books