Küchlya : : Decembrist Poet. A Novel / / Yuri Tynianov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Tynianov, Yuri,
• MitwirkendeR: France, Peter,; Rush, Anna Kurkina,; Rush, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

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 Yuri Tynianov. 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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Characters -- Küchlya: Decembrist Poet: A Novel -- Willie -- The Bechelkückeriad -- Petersburg -- Europe -- Caucasus -- In The Country -- Sons Of The Fatherland -- December -- Peter’s Square -- Escape -- Fortress -- The End -- Some Poems by Wilhelm Küchelbecker -- Endnotes -- About the Translators