Kchlya: Decembrist Poet. a Novel Tynianov Yuri
Kchlya: Decembrist Poet. a Novel Tynianov Yuri The poet Wilhelm Kchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist…
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Kchlya: Decembrist Poet. a Novel Tynianov Yuri
The poet Wilhelm Kchelbecker, 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. 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. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Kchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov.
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