Selected Prose & Poetry - Softcover

Kuzmin, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468301527 ISBN 13: 9781468301526

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2013

Synopsis

He was an avowed homosexual, and his progressive debut novel Wings, the first gay-themed book to be published in Russia, created a scandal when released in 1906. But his open lifestyle made writing increasingly difficult for him under Stalin’s regime, and his works were not reprinted for over forty years.   Presented in this essential collection are the novel Wings; the play The Venetian Madcaps; thirteen short stories; and two major poetic cycles, including the acclaimed The Trout Breaks the Ice.   This anthology exhibits the high level of craftsmanship for which Kuzmin was valued by so many leading writers of his time, including Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Meyerhold, and Blok.

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) was a Russian poet, musician, and novelist, and a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Michael Green is Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at the University of California, Irvine. His articles on and translations of Russian writers have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and literary journals.

Review:

Kuzmin holds one of the first places among contemporary Russian poets. Only a few are blessed with such an amazing harmony of the whole, combined with free diversity of details * Nikolay Gumilev *

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1468301527
• ISBN 13: 9781468301526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288