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Путешествие Глеба
В книге классика Серебряного века и русского зарубежья Бориса Константиновича Зайцева печатается главный труд его жизни – четырехтомная автобиографическая эпопея «Путешествие Глеба», состоящая из романов «Заря» (1937), «Тишина» (1948), «Юность» (1950) и «Древо жизни» (1953). Тетралогия впервые публикуется в России в редакции, заново сверенной по первопечатным изданиям.
625 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1953
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About the author
Boris Zaytsev
10 books1 followerBoris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович За́йцев; 10 February 1881 – 22 January 1972) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist, and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.
Zaytsev was born in Oryol. He attended the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow, the Institute of Mines in Saint Petersburg, and the Law School at the University of Moscow, without graduating from any of them. He first began publishing his fictional works in 1901, and several of his stories were published in the journal The New Direction ran by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. His first collection of stories was published in 1906. His first novel, A Distant Journey, appeared in 1912.
e was chairman of the Moscow Union of Writers from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he was allowed to move to Paris for health reasons, where he became one of the leading emigre writers. His first published novel was "A distant region" (1915, Moscow); the year after his death, in 1973, one of his best prose works, "Serene Twilights," was published by an emigre press in Paris. He published many works in exile, including his novel of love set in Russia, Anna (1929). He was also a biographer and a translator; among his biographical works were lives of Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov; he translated The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri into Russian. The key influences on Zaytsev's fiction writing were Mikhail Lermontov, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Alexander Blok. He died, aged 90, in Paris.
Zaytsev was born in Oryol. He attended the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow, the Institute of Mines in Saint Petersburg, and the Law School at the University of Moscow, without graduating from any of them. He first began publishing his fictional works in 1901, and several of his stories were published in the journal The New Direction ran by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. His first collection of stories was published in 1906. His first novel, A Distant Journey, appeared in 1912.
e was chairman of the Moscow Union of Writers from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he was allowed to move to Paris for health reasons, where he became one of the leading emigre writers. His first published novel was "A distant region" (1915, Moscow); the year after his death, in 1973, one of his best prose works, "Serene Twilights," was published by an emigre press in Paris. He published many works in exile, including his novel of love set in Russia, Anna (1929). He was also a biographer and a translator; among his biographical works were lives of Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov; he translated The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri into Russian. The key influences on Zaytsev's fiction writing were Mikhail Lermontov, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Alexander Blok. He died, aged 90, in Paris.
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August 16, 2023
Gleb’s Journey is an excellently written and profoundly nostalgic autobiographical tetralogy: Sunrise, Quietude, Youth and The Tree of Life.
Sunrise… Almost nomadic childhood… Father often changes supervising jobs and they move from place to place… Mostly in the country…
Boy’s innocent dreams… The first hunting experience… Studying at home… The world is full of mystery…
Quietude… Adolescence… Schooldays in the town… Summers in the countryside…
He is a self-centered adolescent… He exists in his inner world… The world is full of novelty…
Youth… The time of youth is a miraculous age…
He is a student of the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow… He reluctantly participates in the student strike… He’s expelled… He starts writing stories… Bohemian milieu… He falls in love… The world is full of surprises…
The Tree of Life… Adulthood… 1922… After the serious illness Gleb, his wife and daughter go abroad… A brief farewell to his old mother…
Days of exile… Strange lands… Joys and hardships…
Out of infinitesimal fates of every single being time incessantly and tirelessly weaves the vast tapestry of mankind and history.
Sunrise… Almost nomadic childhood… Father often changes supervising jobs and they move from place to place… Mostly in the country…
He preferred independence and freedom – in the nursery he deployed toy soldiers and shot at them with the cannon. Obediently stood officers and privates, dutifully fell under the cannonballs. Gleb shot them at random. But both tin soldiers and the cannon with the spring were such miserable things. He dreamt of the real shotgun.
Boy’s innocent dreams… The first hunting experience… Studying at home… The world is full of mystery…
Quietude… Adolescence… Schooldays in the town… Summers in the countryside…
The entire room with the stained glass window grew imbued with the gold of the calmed down nature and as its final triumph in the unknown dimensions of the sky suddenly the brightest rainbow shone. But it was so near. Its edge – it seemed – abutted on the lawn just before the house…
Gleb sat down on the windowsill. What quietude! What a fresh world. What unearthly brilliance.
He is a self-centered adolescent… He exists in his inner world… The world is full of novelty…
Youth… The time of youth is a miraculous age…
He could go to bed very late, he could worry, he could feel as an unfathomable personality fated to live in solitude and ennui – but there was one thing he couldn’t depress in himself: his youth – it was jumping out of every nook and cranny of his ego.
He is a student of the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow… He reluctantly participates in the student strike… He’s expelled… He starts writing stories… Bohemian milieu… He falls in love… The world is full of surprises…
The Tree of Life… Adulthood… 1922… After the serious illness Gleb, his wife and daughter go abroad… A brief farewell to his old mother…
The vision of his mother in the carriage slowly going away from the house gates, his mother in the same old hat with an ostrich feather, she was waving to him with her handkerchief, she disappeared around the corner… This vision stayed with him forever. Wherever he was, he kept seeing his mother going away, departing to eternity.
Days of exile… Strange lands… Joys and hardships…
Out of infinitesimal fates of every single being time incessantly and tirelessly weaves the vast tapestry of mankind and history.
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