The death of Vazir-Mukhtar /

The death of Vazir-Mukhtar /

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Author / Creator:	Tyni͡anov, I͡U. N. (I͡Uriĭ Nikolaevich), 1894-1943, author.
Uniform title:	Smert' Vazir-Mukhtara. English
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Description:	xxviii, 599 pages 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Russian library Russian library (Columbia University. Press)
Subject:	Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, -- 1795-1829 -- Fiction. Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, -- 1795-1829. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12524147

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Other authors / contributors:	Rush, Anna Kurkina, translator. Rush, Christopher, 1944- translator.
ISBN:	9780231193863 0231193866 9780231193870 0231193874 9780231550543
Notes:	Translated from the Russian.
Summary:	"A novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was savagely murdered in Tehran in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy. The novel is not only one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production but also a brilliant meditation on the nature of historical and poetic consciousness and on literary creation. It is a complex and fascinating work on the nature of the relationship among individual memory, historical fact, and the literary imagination. The result is a hybrid text, containing elements of literary biography, the psychological existential novel, and the spy novel, and a deeply personal, almost confessional work about the relationship of the writer to his generation and the state. Written in 1927 and 1928, almost a century after the events it depicts, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar bridges two watershed periods between revolution and reaction. At a time when the Soviet regime was becoming increasingly restrictive of freedom of expression and conscience, Tynyanov examined themes of disillusionment, betrayal, unrealized potential, and wasted talent. Unabashedly intellectual yet full of intrigue and suspense, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar is one of the great historical novels of Russian modernism"--
Other form:	Online version: Tyni͡anov, I͡U. N. (I͡Uriĭ Nikolaevich), 1894-1943. The death of Vazir-Mukhtar New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231550543

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