Chukovskaya: Sofia Petrovna
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Chukovskaya: Sofia Petrovna
By (Author) Lydia Chukovskaya
Volume editor John Murray
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bristol Classical Press
26th February 1998
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
891.7344
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 140mm, Height 215mm, Spine 8mm
178g
Description
This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book, written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, is treated in the introduction, which also contains a brief biography of the author, a vocabulary and notes.
