Nikolai Zabolotsky: Enigma and Cultural Paradigm

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Northwestern University Press, Jan 25, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 316 pages
Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Constructs of Character
12
3 The Emerging Poet in an Emerging Society
41
4 The Last Gasp of the AvantGarde and the Continuity of Culture
63
5 A Holy Fool at Loose in Leningrad
107
6 Orthodoxies and Subversions
149
7 The Apotheosis of Zabolotsky
207
Notes
243
Selected Bibliography
293
Index
307
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Nikolai Zabolotsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. A Modernist, Zabolotsky was a founder of the Russian avant-garde absurdist group Oberiu. Sally (Sarah) Pratt is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC Dornsife. She is the author of Russian Metaphysical Romanticism: The Poetry of Tiutchev and Boratynskii and The Semantics of Chaos in Tjutcev.

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