
Küchlya : Decembrist Poet. A Novel
by Yuri Tynianov
Title:
Küchlya : Decembrist Poet. A Novel
Author:
Yuri Tynianov
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
396 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Academic Studies Press
ISBN-13:
9781644696859
EAN:
9781644696859
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
714
Dimensions (mm):
151 x 229 x 27
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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.










