Translated Vasilev (1 results)

Sofia: Musala, 1932. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Georgi Atanasov; 143, [1] pp. Light wear to overlapping wrapper edges; chip to rear wrapper; still about very good. Bulgarian translation of Soviet writer Aleksandr Fadeev's (1901-1956) important early novel about the Civil War, which chronicles the decimation of Red Army troops in the Far East, as well as the heroism of youthful partisan fighters. Fadeev was an important literary functionary during the Stalinist period, chairing the Union of Soviet Writers, and gained acclaim for his WWII-novel "The Young Guard" in 1945. This was the first title in a projected series of proletarian novels ("new novels"), printed by the leftist printer's shop "Nova literatura" under the imprint "Musala." Two further books were published, both translations from the Russian (by Maksim Gorky and Tarasov-Rodionov). With an appealing, dynamic wrapper design by Georgi Atanasov, who also created the cubist-inspired wrappers for the avant-garde literary anthology "Literaturen glas" (1931), for instance. Not in Jacono. Neither this nor other titles in the series found in KVK, OCLC.…