A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets

ISBN-13: 9781788312950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Igor Golomstock; Sara Jolly; Boris Dralyuk

Opis

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East.

Recenzje

Written in brisk, engaging prose, with a salutary dash of gallows humour . So rich is it in detail of key institutions and figures that it stands in its own right as a singularly valuable record of the era and milieu . An apt companion to Golomstock's own critical work. Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

List of IllustrationsTranslator's NoteAcknowledgementsTurning PointPart I. Russia1. My Father's Arrest2. Kolyma3. Moscow4. Finances and Romances5. The Pushkin Museum of Fine ArtsComrade NovikovAbram Efros and Andre´ GideThe Museum of New Western Art6. The International Festival and Artists7. The Sinyavskys, Khlebny Lane, the Far North8. Dancing Around Picasso9. The Museum Again10. VNIITE11. Great Expectations12. The Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial13. Dissidents14. Pen Portraits of My Friends15. Questions of Faith16. A Waiting Game17. Departure: An Obstacle RacePart II. EmigrationTranslator's Note to Part II18. The Journal Kontinent19. The Anthony Blunt Affair20. Radio Liberty, Galich21. At the BBC22. The Second Trial of Andrey Sinyavsky23. Politics versus Aesthetics24. Sinyavsky's Last Years25. Perestroika26. Family MattersInstead of a Conclusion The Benefits of PessimismAfterwordNotesDramatis PersonaeAppendix IAppendix IISelect BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Igor Golomstock (1929-2017) was an art historian, translator, university lecturer, and radio broadcaster. He was born in Russia and emigrated to the UK. Sara Jolly is a freelance Russian-English translator and documentary filmmaker based in London. Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator, writer, and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Robert Chandler is an award-winning poet and translator from Russian, French, and Greek. Among the writers he has translated from Russian are Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov. He is the co-editor of the Penguin Classics anthology Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (2014). Penguin have also published his anthologies of Russian short stories and of Russian magic tales.