Παρουσίαση
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), deleted from literary history in the Soviet era because of his emigration in 1922 with his partner Nina Berberova, has since been welcomed in Russia into its 20th-century pantheon of poets, where he was long ago placed by Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Brodsky.Khodasevich is a modernist yet standing for continuity, relishing the verse forms of Pushkin. In the postrevolutionary era of the 1920s, in the sound and fury of poetic schools battling for supremacy, his restrained and understated tone was misunderstood. To his strident contemporaries his quieter voice seemed anachronistic and irrelevant; today, his classical precision and his doubts are more convincing than their confidence. His quest to find meaning in the world without self-idealization or setting himself apart from his fellow men is distinctly appealing to our time.
This bilingual edition, with its wide-ranging introduction by Michael Wachtel and extensive end-notes by the translator, offers the English-speaking reader the first substantial selection of this intriguing poet. It contains 58 poems, among them the meditative 'Sorrento Photographs', one of the great Russian longer poems of the century.
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE 2014 AND THE ROSSICA TRANSLATION PRIZE 2014. (From the publisher)
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