Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature
By (Author) Emily Van Buskirk
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th March 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
891.784209
Physical Properties
Hardback
368
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
652g
Description
The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the d
Reviews
"Particularly welcome is the queer studies dimension of the volume... Those coming to Ginzburg's work for the first time will particularly appreciate the informative biography of the author at the beginning of the book"--Choice "Any student of the twentieth century and its traumas, let alone Soviet literary history, should find Van Buskirk's book of extreme interest and value."--Marat Grinberg, Russian Review
Author Bio
Emily Van Buskirk is associate professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Lydia Ginzburg's Alternative Literary Identities and of a Russian edition of Ginzburg's blockade prose. She is editing a new publication of Ginzburg's Notes from the Leningrad Blockade.
