Literary Moscow: Houses and Fates, Events and Secrets
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Literary Moscow: Houses and Fates, Events and Secrets
29.99 €
The book by Vyacheslav Nedoshivin - writer, literary critic and documentary filmmaker - is a brilliant attempt to combine seemingly unrelated things: the history of great Russian literature over the last four centuries and the "living spirit" of it preserved to this day in the palaces, tenement houses, courtyard wings and attics of old Moscow. The book contains 320 Moscow addresses of poets, writers, critics and just "laborers of Russian literature" and exactly the same number of stories of the author about those who lived at these addresses. A stone chronicle of books, "geography" of poetry and prose, and at the same time - fascinating stories about how great works were created in these houses, how their authors argued, fell in love and divorced, were shot at duels and wrote in suicide notes, stories about how they celebrated creative victories in these preserved houses and met sometimes persecution, arrests, exiles and shootings. Memorable events, literary gatherings and journals, surviving artifacts and references to the prototypes and prototypes of the book's heroes, secrets that have come true and the reality that still retains a veil of mystery - all this "from brick to letter" is described by the author on a documentary basis: on surviving letters, diaries, memoirs and the latest research of scholars. The book, this unusual guide to Moscow, is intended both for fans and connoisseurs of literature, and for specialists - literary critics, historians and Muscovites.
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