Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings

by Mikhail Kuzmin

The least known of the Russian writers in Harold Bloom's Western Canon, Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) is the last to emerge from the oblivion imposed by Soviet prudery on the country's non-conformist art. Green and Shvabrin's Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings takes the English-speaking reader well beyond the reference-book cliche of Kuzmin as Russia's first openly gay writer, made notorious by his coming-out novel Wings of 1906. One of the supreme Russian poets of the twentieth century - the equal of Akhmatova, Blok, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetayeva - Kuzmin was also an out-standing prose writer, dramatist, and literary theoretician. Finally he is beginning to receive the attention that is his due.

Genres: Poetry, Russian Literature, Russia

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Кузмин) was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Style: modernist, experimental. Themes: gay desire, USSR as bleak, artists and publics. Top tips: Trout, Nero.

[LALIT KUMAR]

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