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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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