An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.
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978-0-231-54911-0 (9780231549110)
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Heldt Barbara:
Barbara heldt is Professor Emerita of Russian at the University of British Columbia. She is author of Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature, translator of Karolina Pavlova, A Double Life and Kozma Prutkov: The Art of Parody, and author of numerous articles and contributions to symposia on Russian literature.Karolina Pavlova, born Karolina Jaenisch in 1807, was a Russian poet and translator and presided over a famous Moscow literary salon. She died in Dresden in 1893, having abandoned Russia not because of tsarist oppression but because of hostile criticism of her poetry and her personal life. A Double Life is her major work.
Barbara Heldt is professor emerita of Russian at the University of British Columbia. Her books include Koz'ma Prutkov: The Art of Parody (1973) and Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature (1987).
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Introduction by Barbara Heldt
A Double Life
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