Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey

Magnetic North (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations with Tomas Venclova

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Produktbeschreibung

Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.

Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extendedinterview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature. Venclova, who personally knew Akhmatova, Pasternak, Milosz, Brodsky, and many others, was also one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group, one of the first human rights organizations in Eastern Europe. Magnetic North provides an in-depth account of ethical choices and artistic resistance to totalitarianism over a half century. It also details Venclova's artistic work, expanding our understanding of the significance of this writer, whose books are central to contemporary European culture.

The publication of this book was supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute.

Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, writer, scholar, and translator. He is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Ellen Hinsey is the author of numerous works of poetry, essay, and literary translation. Her most recent book is Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787441231
• Artikelnr.: 49270926

Autorenporträt

Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Magnetic North, Iron and Grace Childhood and Family The
Soviets: 1939-1941 War Years: 1941-1944 Return of the Soviets Postwar and
Culture Gymnasium Antanas Venclova Vilnius University 1956 and Khrushchev's
Secret Speech Boris Pasternak Study Group and the KGB Moscow: 1961-1964
Anna Akhmatova Sign of Speech Joseph Brodsky Civil Society and Dissidence
The Lithuanian and Moscow Helsinki Groups Preparation for Exile Czeslaw
Milosz and Berkeley Travels: Exile as Good Luck The Junction: Poems Notes
Works by Tomas Venclova Index of Names