Barcelona Prose / / Efim Etkind.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Etkind, Efim,
• MitwirkendeR: Bethea, David M.,; Bethea, David,; Man, Joyse,; Reeve, Helen,; Trubikhina, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• 出版年: 2022
• 語言: English
• 實物描述: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind&#...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• In Lieu of a Foreword
• He Outsmarted Us
• Full Repair!
• The Marquis de Lapunaise
• The Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
• Looking through the Walls
• The Double
• Ferenc, Count Batthyány
• Ebensee
• “On the Sly”
• How We Lived
• “The Blond Hidden in a Bottle”
• Triumph of Spirit
• Up the Down Staircase
• It Turned out Okay
• About the Axe
• Last Meeting
• Pavel Antokolsky: Generation of the Blind
• Cousin
• “The Other”
• The Cowardice of a Brave Man
• Two Jewish Fates: Reading the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
• “Youth in a Military Blouse” of My Contemporary
• Afterword: A Knight of Culture
• Index of Names