The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar - Couverture rigide

Tynyanov, Yury

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231193866 ISBN 13 : 9780231193863

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was savagely murdered in Tehran in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy.

The novel is not only one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production but also a brilliant meditation on the nature of historical and poetic consciousness and on literary creation. It is a complex and fascinating work on the nature of the relationship among individual memory, historical fact, and the literary imagination. The result is a hybrid text, containing elements of literary biography, the psychological existential novel, and the spy novel, and a deeply personal, almost confessional work about the relationship of the writer to his generation and the state. Written in 1927 and 1928, almost a century after the events it depicts, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar bridges two watershed periods between revolution and reaction. At a time when the Soviet regime was becoming increasingly restrictive of freedom of expression and conscience, Tynyanov examined themes of disillusionment, betrayal, unrealized potential, and wasted talent. Unabashedly intellectual yet full of intrigue and suspense, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar is one of the great historical novels of Russian modernism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Rush has a PhD in Russian Studies from the University of St Andrews. She is the co-translator with her husband Dr. Christopher Rush of Tynianov's Young Pushkin (Angel Books, London, 2007, American edition, Rookery Press, New York, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231193866
• ISBN 13: 9780231193863
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 632
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