Russian Poet / Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (English and Russian Edition)
By Maxim D. Shrayer.
Description
Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii is a long-awaited work of biography and literary criticism. Maxim D. Shrayer explores the problem of Jewish identity in the early Soviet period by examining the short but brilliant career of Eduard Bagritskii (1895-1934), a major Russian-Jewish poet. Overlooked in the West, Bagritskii's life and art typify the tortured destiny of Russia's Jews. Shrayer paints an intimate portrait of his subject, providing rare photographs of Bagritskii's life and the first English translations of his major works.Born in Odessa, Bagritsk...
ISBN(s)
0742507807, 9780742507807
