Between Exile and Asylum : : An Eastern Epistolary / / Predrag Matvejević.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Matvejević, Predrag,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Source Texts --; A Note on the Transliteration of Russian --; BOOK ONE • HEROIDES --; To My Forebears --; Seven Thousand Days in Siberia --; Sinyavsky-Daniel --; Brodsky --; Eurasian Letters - Continued --; The Gulag Archipelago --; BOOK TWO • STELES --; Soviet Itineraries - Continued --; On Letters, Open and Closed --; Kolyma --; To Varlam Shalamov --; Russian Letters - Continued --; Hostage to the Truth --; Cause for Dismissal --; Yellow Star, White Star --; Confession --; BOOK THREE • EPITAPHS --; Rehabilitations --; Nikolai Bukharin --; Kropotkin - The Dark Prince --; Maxim Gorky --; Lev Trotsky --; Goli Otok - Another Gulag --; BOOK FOUR • APOLOGIAS --; Introduction --; Mikhail Bulgakov --; Nadezhda Mandelshtam --; Ariadna Efron --; Kruzhok --; Portraits of Stalin --; On the Perestroika of Writers --; For Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev --; Archives and Memory --; For a New Dissidence --; An Interrogation --; Our Disappointments - To Brodsky --; Final Letters --; Heirs without Heritage --; Emigration and Dissidence --; The Collapse of the Intelligentsia --; Okudzhava's Response --; A Perverted Slavicism --; The Gulag So Long Ago --; To Franjo Tudman --; Afterword - An Open Letter to the Reader --; Name Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633865132; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633865132
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Predrag Matvejević.

A collection of letters by a most extraordinary member of East European intelligentsia, sent from Moscow, Mostar; lately Paris and Rome, where the author has lived since leaving war-torn Bosnia. Matvejević , vice president of the International PEN Club, was born in Yugoslavia, the son of a Russian emigre. His letters are about the past and the present of Russia, as welll as his hopes and fears for her future.