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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449837803321

Autore

Walker Barbara <1958->

Titolo

Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian literary circle [[electronic resource] ] : culture and survival in revolutionary times / / Barbara Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07232-3

9786612072321

0-253-11043-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

891.71/3

Soggetti

Russian literature - Societies, etc

Intellectuals - Russia - History - 20th century

Intellectuals - Soviet Union - History

Literature and state - Russia

Literature and state - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Voloshin's social and cultural origins -- The Russian symbolists and their circles -- Voloshin and the modernist problem of the ugly poetess -- The Koktebel' dacha circle -- Insiders and outsiders, gossip and mythology : from communitas toward network node -- Voloshin carves power out of fear -- Voloshin carves power, cont'd, and the broader context and implications of his activities -- Inside Voloshin's Soviet circle : persistence of structure, preservation of anti-structure -- Collapse of a patronage network and Voloshin's death.

Sommario/riassunto

Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian                intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period,                through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet                Maximilian Voloshin (1877--1932). From 1911 until his death, Voloshin led a circle                in the Crimean village of Koktebel' that was a haven for such literary luminaries as                Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Gumilev, and Osip Mandelstam. Drawing upon the                anthropological



theories of Vic