Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters

by Georgy Ivanov, Jerome Katsell (Translator), Stanislav Shvabrin (Translator)

Overview

This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. Disintegration of the Atom (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian émigré despair on the eve of WWII—a 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 Ivanov’s contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618114549
Publisher:	Academic Studies Press
Publication date:	04/30/2016
Series:	Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and is an independent scholar and translator.

Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

On Transliteration, Sources, and Annotation

Introduction: “. . . Struck by all the horrors of human disillusionment . . .”:

Miseries and Splendors of Georgy Ivanov’s “Citational” Prose DISINTEGRATION OF THE ATOM

PETERSBURG WINTERS

Notes