Küchlya Decembrist Poet : A Novel

The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

ISBN:	9781644696859
Publisher:	Academic Studies Press
Imprint:	Cherry Orchard Books
Published date:	30 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	891.7342
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	340
Weight:	594g
Height:	151mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	27mm

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