Dim and Distant Days (New Russian Writing) - Softcover
"[Larissa] Miller recalls what it was like to come of age as a Jewish girl during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaigns and beyond. . . . Despite the taunts and the insults, despite her feeling that pogroms could begin any moment, she remains resilient and undaunted."—The Forward
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Born in 1940 Larissa Miller was educated at the Foreign Languages Institute in Moscow and later taught at Moscow University. A major lyrical poet, she is the author of ten books, including Nameless Day; My Land and Home; Let's Talk about the Paradoxes of Love; Holidays, Holidays; Between the Cloud and the Pit.
Winner of several literary prizes she was short-listed for the State Prize in 2000.
In Dim and Distant Days, Miller looks back over nearly five decades of Soviet history to her hungry but happy childhood in post-war Moscow; her coming of age as a Jewish girl in an anti-Semitic regime; her early loves and her student days; her encounters with the KGB as an English interpreter in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as the wife of human rights activist Boris Altschuler.
Miller's striking personality shines through her narrative. She radiates kindness and wisdom, seemingly fragile and vulnerable she is able to resist all ideological influences, remaining completely independent-minded and vibrantly alive.
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Winner of several literary prizes she was short-listed for the State Prize in 2000.
In Dim and Distant Days, Miller looks back over nearly five decades of Soviet history to her hungry but happy childhood in post-war Moscow; her coming of age as a Jewish girl in an anti-Semitic regime; her early loves and her student days; her encounters with the KGB as an English interpreter in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as the wife of human rights activist Boris Altschuler.
Miller's striking personality shines through her narrative. She radiates kindness and wisdom, seemingly fragile and vulnerable she is able to resist all ideological influences, remaining completely independent-minded and vibrantly alive.
"Miller recalls what it was like to come of age as a Jewish girl during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaigns and beyond . . . Despite the taunts and the insults, despite her feeling that pogroms could begin any moment, Ms. Miller remains resilient and undaunted. Despite the deep-rooted tradition and repeated historical outbursts of anti Semitism in Russia, and the ongoing tensions between Russians and Jews that makes many Jews feel like strangers in their own land, Russia for many is still the homeland, as Ms. Miller calls it." --Jewish Forward
"Behind this childish facade was the real world Stalinist Russia where her mother worked from dawn to dusk, where she was called a dirty kike before even realizing that she was Jewish, a world of scarcity and death. Miller writes of a childhood of endurance, but she does so without bitterness or sentimentality." --Sydney Morning Herald
"Larissa Miller's poetry radiates harmony. Her clear, precise and beautiful language is her forte. Her poetry is truly poetic and has no need for neologisms or any special devices for its expressiveness. Such poetry, with its openness and sincerity, will always be in demand whatever the current fashion." --Arseny Tarkovsky
"Behind this childish facade was the real world Stalinist Russia where her mother worked from dawn to dusk, where she was called a dirty kike before even realizing that she was Jewish, a world of scarcity and death. Miller writes of a childhood of endurance, but she does so without bitterness or sentimentality." --Sydney Morning Herald
"Larissa Miller's poetry radiates harmony. Her clear, precise and beautiful language is her forte. Her poetry is truly poetic and has no need for neologisms or any special devices for its expressiveness. Such poetry, with its openness and sincerity, will always be in demand whatever the current fashion." --Arseny Tarkovsky
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- PublisherGLAS New Russian Writing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 571720051X
- ISBN 13 9785717200516
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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