Mikhail Kuzmin : a life in art
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Mikhail Kuzmin : a life in art
Harvard University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-438) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer, stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. A poet of the caliber of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva (and acknowledged as such by them and other contemporaries), Kuzmin was also a prose writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia, from Symbolism to the Leningrad avant-gardes of the 1920s.
Only now is Kuzmin beginning to emerge from the "official obscurity" imposed by the Soviet regime to assume his place as one of Russia's greatest poets and one of this century's most characteristic and colorful creative figures. This biography, the first in any language to be based on full and uncensored access to the writer's private papers, including his notorious Diary, places Kuzmin in the context of his society and times and contributes to our discovery and appreciation of a fascinating period and of Russia's long suppressed gay history.
Table of Contents
Preface Authors' Note Introduction "The Edifying Story of My Beginnings": 1872-1897 "I Am Searching...the Long, Long Path": 1897-1902 "Will a New Russia Arise?" 1903-1905 Buoyant Days: 1905-6 "Burning with a Double Love": 1907-1909 Disciple to Master: 1909-10 "Where Is Life's Enchantment?" 1911-12 "Everything Will Be as It Is Destined": 1913-1916 "The End of Everything": 1917-1920 "Will I Have Time to Show the Magic in Me?" 1921-1923 "Like a Ragged Squirrel on a Treadmill": 1924-1926 Dissenting to the End: 1927-1936 Epilogue Abbreviations and Bibliographical Note Notes Index
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