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The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Characters
  • Küchlya: Decembrist Poet: A Novel
  • Willie
  • The Bechelkückeriad
  • Europe
  • Caucasus
  • In the Country
  • Sons of the Fatherland
  • December
  • Peter's Square
  • Escape
  • Fortress
  • The End
  • Some Poems by Wilhelm Küchelbecker
  • Endnotes

Küchlya: Decembrist Poet. A Novel

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      Publisher Academic Studies Press
      Published 28 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9781644696842
      978-1644696842
      ISBN-10 1644696843

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • The Characters
      • Küchlya: Decembrist Poet: A Novel
      • Willie
      • The Bechelkückeriad
      • Europe
      • Caucasus
      • In the Country
      • Sons of the Fatherland
      • December
      • Peter's Square
      • Escape
      • Fortress
      • The End
      • Some Poems by Wilhelm Küchelbecker
      • Endnotes

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