Valerii Pereleshin

The Life of a Silkworm

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian ÉmigrÉs of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he wrote poetry in Russian and in Portuguese and translated Chinese and Brazilian poetry into Russian and Russian and Chinese poetry into Portuguese. For many years he struggled to accept and express his own identity as a gay man within a frequently homophobic ÉmigrÉ community. His poems addressed his three homelands, his religious struggles, and his loves. In Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin’s poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-23
Mått163 x 237 x 33 mm
Vikt760 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor408
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442648920

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Brief Outline of Valerii Pereleshin’s LifePrefacePART ONE: CHINA, 1920–19521. Russian Childhood2. Harbin: On the Way of Becoming a Poet3. Harbin: The Poet as a Monk4. Beijing: “Wonderful, Beloved City”5. Shanghai: Fogs and Chimeras6. The Long FarewellPART TWO: BRAZIL, 1953–19927. CidadÃ marvelhosa8. Resurrection of a Poet9. From Mount Nebo10. The Lefthander11. New Roads and Great Loss12. Growing Recognition13. Last Love, Last Books, Last Years

‘This book offers its reader a mind-blowing adventure: it is the story of the life and writing of a twentieth century Russian poet at once too strange, too radical, and too good to be true.’- Polina Barskova (The Russian review vol 75:02:2016) ‘The book is impressively researched, with a formidable scholarly apparatus…. Even more remarkable is Bakich’s deft handling of a bewilderingly complex context.’- Timothy Lange (Slavic & East European Journal vol 61:02:2017)