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Beginning in present-day St Petersburg, "The Russian Jerusalem" explores the landscape of twentieth century Russian literature. In this evocative autobiographical novel, distinguished poet, translator, novelist and biographer Elaine Feinstein moves among the dead poets of Stalin's Russia with the poet Marina Tsvetaeva as her Virgil, mingling with the ghosts of writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky. These imaginary encounters are interspersed with new poems by Feinstein. The author, herself of Russian descent, reconstructs the lives and fates of Russian, often Jewish, writers during the long age of Soviet terror, re-establishing them at the heart of the European tradition.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Russian Jerusalem
• Author: Elaine Feinstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 169
• EAN: 9781857549102
• ISBN: 1857549104
• ID: 04302869
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 135 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. May 2008

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