A Book of Russian Poems (New York Review Books Classics)
Edición de la obra The Stray Dog cabaret
| Autor | Schmidt, Paul, Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore |
|---|---|
| Editorial | NYRB Classics |
| Fecha de publicación | December 5, 2006 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 168 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781590171912 |
| ISBN-10 | 1590171918 |
| Número de Cutter | S353s |
"In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence "Twelve"; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life." "It was a transforming moment - not just for Russian but for world poetry - and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret."--Jacket.