Barcelona Prose

Etkind, Efim/ Reeve, Helen (Translator)/ Man, Joyse (Translator)/ Trubikhina, Julia (Translator)/ Bethea, David (Afterword)

ISBN 10: 1644697912 / ISBN 13: 9781644697917

Published by Cherry Orchard Books, 2022

350 pages. 9.02x6.00x0.59 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # xi1644697912

Synopsis:

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the absurdity of a cultural-political experiment that destroyed his family’s life, his own career, and that of many of his colleagues. By the time of Etkind’s death, he did not rework these essays into a continuous narrative. Originally published in Russian, this first-ever English translation prepared by Etkind’s daughter presents his memoirs as a document of his time, without any changes or abridgements. The editors’ additions are limited to several notes, proofreading of quotes, and checking or inserting the full forms of the characters’ names.

About the Author: Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Barcelona Prose
Publisher: Cherry Orchard Books
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New