Esenin: A Life - Softcover

Gordon McVay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557780048 ISBN 13: 9781557780041

Publisher: Paragon House, 1988

Synopsis

Esenin, the most popular of all 20th century poets in Russia, is known here chiefly as Isadora Duncan's most colorful lover. This is the first objective and thoroughly researched biography of Esenin. Gordon McVay has had access to unpublished material and has conducted interviews with members of Esenin's circle. Esenin lived in an extraordinary historical period, during the years before and after the October Revolution; he is seen here within the framework of his times. Esenin enjoyed early fame, both in the salons of Petrograd in the cafés of Moscow; alcoholic, paranoid, a poet passed his artistic prime, he died, of suicide, at age 30. The product of 12 years of research, McVay's Esenin correlates the facts of Esenin's biography and elucidates some aspects of Esenin's puzzling and unstable personality. --- from book's back cover

About this edition

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1557780048
• ISBN 13: 9781557780041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351