Emigration as a literary device
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Having left the Soviet Union in 1975, Zinovy Zyn was able to visit Russia again only fifteen years later. For three decades of life in England, Zikan published seven novels and three collection of stories translated into different languages of the world, won a solid writer reputation as among British and among Russian readers. In this collection of essay (from the end of the 70s until recently), the reader will find not only a detailed and fascinating analysis of the literary situation outside Russia - from the Epoch of the Iron Curtain to our days of open borders - but also memoir reports on the personal meetings of Zikin with old Moscow Friends in the new territory and with such classical names of the twentieth century, as Anthony Burdecs and Francis Bacon, about polemical clashes with the family of Nabokov and about ideological confrontation with Salman Rushdi. This book is about the dialectics of the writer"s relationship outside the homeland with another culture
Author:
Author:Zinik Zinovy
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Series:
Series: Criticism and Esseistics
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86793-865-9
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