The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar / / Yury Tynyanov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Tynyanov, Yury,
• MitwirkendeR: Brintlinger, Angela,; Rush, Anna Kurkina,; Rush, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Russian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; No figures
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: TRUTH AND AMBIGUITY ON THE ROAD TO TEHRAN --; TRANSLATORS’ NOTE --; PROLOGUE --; 01 --; 02 --; 03 --; 04 --; 05 --; 06 --; 07 --; 08 --; 09 --; 10 --; 11 --; 12 --; 13 --; GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN WORDS --; GLOSSARY OF NAMES --; NOTES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231550543; 9783110739077
• DOI: 10.7312/tyny19386
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yury Tynyanov.

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures 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 murdered in 1829 by a Tehrani mob during the sacking of the Russian embassy.One of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, the novel is a brilliant meditation on the nature of historical and poetic consciousness and of artistic creation. It is a complex and fascinating work that explores the relationships among individual memory, historical fact, and the literary imagination. The result is a hybrid text, containing elements of various genres—historical, biographical, existential, and adventure novels—and a deeply personal, almost confessional testament to the writer’s relationship to his generation and the state. Completed in 1927, almost a century after the events it depicts, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar marks the watershed between revolution and reaction. At a time when the Soviet regime was becoming increasingly restrictive of freedom of expression and conscience, Tynyanov grappled with the themes of disillusionment, betrayal, and unrealized potential. Unabashedly intellectual yet filled with intrigue and suspense, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar is a great historical novel of Russian modernism.