Between Exile and Asylum
An Eastern Epistolary
Published on 1. October 2004
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-963-9241-85-5 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of letters by a most extraordinary member of East European intelligentsia, sent from Moscow, Mostar; lately Paris and Rome, where the author has lived since leaving war-torn Bosnia. Matvejevic , vice president of the International PEN Club, was born in Yugoslavia, the son of a Russian emigre. His letters are about the past and the present of Russia, as welll as his hopes and fears for her future.
Reviews / Votes
"Matvejevic has written other important books (Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape; Yugoslavism Today; I Signori della guerra), but this is a special case. His personal stake is palpable from the first page, when he makes it clear that his ideal reader, at least in the opening, is his father who lies ill in a Zagreb hospital... There is a lot of interesting material here on Soviet and Yugoslav cultural politics, but also much that is personal and compelling in the author's own story and in the subtly insinuating manner he chose to convey it. Fascinating stuff." * Amazon (extract from a reader's online review) *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-9241-85-5 (9789639241855)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Predrag Matvejevic, vice president of the International PEN Club He is member of the Praxis group of the 1970s, which included such figures as Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, and Juergen Habermas, he was a leading dissident Yugoslav intellectual through the early 1990s, when he emigrated to Paris, teaching for several years at the Sorbonne. Later he moved to Rome, where he now teaches at La Sapienza.
Content
Acknowledgments A Note on Source Texts A Note on the Transliteration of Russian Book One: Heroides To My Forebears Seven Thousand Days in Siberia Sinyavsky-Daniel Brodsky Eurasian Letters (continued) The Gulag Archipelago Book Two: Steles Soviet Itineraries (continued) On Letters, Open and Closed Kolyma To Varlam Shalamov Russian Letters (continued) Hostage to the Truth Cause for Dismissal Yellow Star, White Star Confession Book Three: Epitaphs Rehabilitations Nikolai Bukharin Kropotkin, the Dark Prince Maksim Gorky Lev Trotsky Goli Otok: Another Gulag Book Four: Apologias Mikhail Bulgakov Nadezhda Mandelshtam Ariadna Efron Kruzhok. Portraits of Stalin On the Perestroika of Writers For Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Archives and Memory For a New Dissidence An Interrogation Our Disappointments: To Brodsky Final Letters Heirs without Heritage Emigration and Dissidence The Collapse of the Intelligentsia Okudzhava's Response A Perverted Slavicism The Gulag So Long Ago To Franjo Tudman Afterword: An Open Letter to the Reader