Product Description
Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. The authors trace the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, and discusses their roles in the spiritual, political, and intellectual lives of the reader. The authors grab and take the reader on a tour of famous and infamous sites of the most important scenes of Russian literature. For example, the scene of Raskolnikov's crime in St. Petersburg, where Gogol hung his overcoat, where Esenin created hi bohemian life in Moscow, and the streets where Tolstoy strode. A book to be read at home as much as by travelers, these vignettes sketch not only an extraordinary literary map of Russia but also a whole social and political panorama that unfolds in vivid and remarkable detail.
NY: Overlook Duckworth Press, 2007. List of authors and an index. Illustrated. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover.
Printed on highly acidic pulp-like paper, some tanning thus. 1 copy only.
