Research Catalog

Title

Women writers in Russian modernism : an anthology / translated and edited by Temira Pachmuss.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pachmuss, Temira, 1927-2007

Description

xvi, 340 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1880-1910
• Russian literature > 20th century > Translations into English
• Women > Soviet Union > Literary collections
• Modernism (Literature) > Soviet Union
• Russian literature > Women authors
• Modernism (Literature)
• Russian literature
• Women
• Anthologie
• Russisch
• Schriftstellerin
• Frauenliteratur
• Soviet Union > Literary collections
• Soviet Union
• Russland
• Russisch

Genre/Form

• Literature.
• Literary collections.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Poems. Autumn ; The light ; Homeward ; The word? ; Frost ; A white garment ; Words of love ; No! ; Perhaps ; The key / Zinaida Hippius -- Stories. The mad woman ; An ordinary event ; The door / Zinaida Hippius -- Poems. "No, I've no need for the sun, nor the brilliant azure" ; The Queen of Sheba ; My sky ; The four horsemen ; Dreams of immortality ; The seraphim ; Our times ; "I want to die young" ; Enis-el-Djellis ; A prayer for those who are perishing ; "My sadness is always with me" ; "Oh we--the sorrowful" ; Before sunset / Mirra Lokhvitskaya -- Comedy. Mirage / Anastasiya Verbitskaya -- Poems. There ; Early Mass ; The snowdrop ; "Dry pines and shaggy black firs" ; "We sang to the sun in days gone by" ; In the crypt ; St. Petersburg ; The evening glow ; On a winter's night ; The old house ; "Pre-dawn's twilight glances in the window" ; "I have not come to reproach you" ; "Do you remember, we walked along the quiet river" / Poliksena Solovyova -- from The tragic menagerie : The bear cub ; The fledgling ; The wolves ; The monster / Lidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal -- Poems. The red cloak ; The spinning wheel ; The crucifixion ; The golden bough ; "In my dreams I am close to arrogance" ; "I seek refuge at the threshold of the temple" ; "Bitter and wild--the smell of the earth" ; "They've locked the door of my abode" ; Sonnet ; "In the blind nights of the new moon" / Cherubina De Gabriak -- from Humorous Tales : Beyond the wall ; A fashionable lawyer ; A nanny's tale about a mare's head ; Dog days / Nadezhda Teffi -- from All about love : A psychological fact ; Two diaries ; Two romances with foreigners / Nadezhda Teffi -- Poems. "My fields! My sheaves!" ; In the wind ; "The keys have drowned in the sea" ; "Somewhere in the azure field" ; "If I am always dressed in white" ; "I have known for a long time that I am autumnal" ; The forest ; "I live in a desert, far from the world" ; "The miracle is ripe like a magic treasure" / Adelaida Gertsyk.

ISBN

• 0252002245
• 9780252002243
• 025200700X
• 9780252007002

LCCN

78008957

OCLC

• ocm03892788
• 3892788
• SCSB-9541853

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library