Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diana L. BurginSeries:Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature #13Publish date:1994-07-01Pages:382
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814712214ISBN-10:814712215UPC:9780814712214Book Category:Literary Criticism, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Sexuality, LGBTQ+Size:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC6CGAG3A5
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho
The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous."
--Anton Chekhov, writing to his publisher in 1895
Chekhov's barbed comment suggests the climate in which Sophia Parnok was writing, and is an added testament to to...
Series: Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature #13
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814712214ISBN-10:814712215UPC:9780814712214Book Category:Literary Criticism, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Sexuality, LGBTQ+Size:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC6CGAG3A5
Burgin, Diana L.: - Diana Lewis Burgin is Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and an Associate of the Russian Research Centre, Harvard University. She is author of a biography in verse, numerous articles on Russian literature, and a translator of Russian prose and poetry.
Publisher: New York University Press
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