Almost at the End - Softcover

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805007857 ISBN 13: 9780805007855

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1988

Synopsis

Poems consider tyranny, freedom, poverty, anti-Semitism, neo-Stalinism, children, censorship, love, and modern life

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Russian (translation)

From Library Journal:

Soviet renegade poet turned celebrity, Yevtushenko is now dealing with how to "stay hungry" after becoming "too rich and too famous." This work consists primarily of "Fuki," a meditation in poetry and prose that ranges from childhood war memories to the poet's inability to do more than bear witness to contemporary poverty and injustice. Political heterodoxy, formal experimentation, and sexual frankness are barriers broached with impunity, indicating Yevtushenko's near-untouchable status. Yet he declares himself a "writer for all who don't write." His outbursts of eloquence, though unmistakable, are apparently motivated by a peculiar egotism: he sees himself as Mayakovsky's successor. He will have to move beyond this stage to recapture the power of his work from the Sixties. Rob Schmieder, Boston
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0805007857
• ISBN 13: 9780805007855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112