Küchlya : Decembrist Poet. A Novel
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| Title: | Küchlya : Decembrist Poet. A Novel |
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| Description: | 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 Yuri Tynianov. 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. |
| Authors: | Yuri Tynianov |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Poets, Russian--19th century--Fiction, Decembrists--Fiction |
| Categories: | FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, HISTORY / Russia / General, POETRY / Russian & Soviet |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 Yuri Tynianov. 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781644696842 9781644696859 9781644696866 9781644696873 |
