Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters (Paperback)

Paperback. This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian emigre despair on the eve of WWIIa cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. Petersburg Winters (1928/1952) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanovs contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam. Georgy Ivanovs brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian emigre life moving erotically in wars shadow at the speed of darkness. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.