Stamp Album : A Collection of People, Things, Relationships and Words

Sergeyev, Andrei, Sergeev, Andrei

ISBN 10: 5717200595 / ISBN 13: 9785717200592

Published by Glas - New Russian Writing, 2002

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Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stamp Album : A Collection of People, Things, Relationships and Words
• Publisher: Glas - New Russian Writing
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 5717200595
• ISBN 13: 9785717200592
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Translated.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.573 pounds

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Synopsis

Sergeev paints a picture of hitherto unknown 'catacomb Russia'. ... Sergeev's memory seems to collect mere trifles: children's ditties, counting rhymes, old slogans, newspaper clippings, snatches of conversations, official documents, urban folklore and much else. He fishes various fragments out of this detritus and files them carefully away in his "stamp album"...

About the Authors

Andrei Sergeyev (1933-1998), a poet and professional numismatist, was better known as a translator of English and American poetry, including that of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden. In the 1950s Sergeyev belonged to the original underground literary group that invented samizdat (hand-production and dissemination of banned books). Written in the 1970s "for the drawer", Stamp Album was published in Russia in 1996. This is Sergeyev's first appearance in English translation.
Joanne Turnbull has translated a number of books from Russian, including Andrei Sinyavsky's Soviet Civilization (Arcade, 1991), Asar Eppel's The Grassy Street (Glas, 1998) and Lev Rubinstein's Here I Am (Glas, 2002). She lives in Moscow.

Andrei Sergeev (1933-1998) writer and poet, a professional numismatist, was better known as a translator of Robert Frost, Sandberg, T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Platt, Oden, Allen Ginsberg, to name a few. His excellent translations made a strong impact on the development of Russian poetry at the time. In the 1950s Sergeev belonged to the first literary underground group, which invented samizdat, that is, hand-production and dissemination of banned books. Only in the early 1990s he first published his stories and then Stamp Album, which immediately won the acclaim of readers and critics alike as well as the most prestigious literary prize in Russia: the Russian Booker.
A professional translator of English and American literature, Sergeev appears in English translation for the first time.