Derzhavin, or the Collapse of an Empire
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Derzhavin, or the Collapse of an Empire
14.99 €
Yuri Dombrovsky (1909-1978) - prose writer, poet, who went through several arrests, camps, exiles and did not break down. Author of the novels "Monkey comes for his skull", "Keeper of Antiquities", "Faculty of unnecessary things", "The Birth of a Mouse".
"Derzhavin, or the Crash of the Empire" - the first and unfinished novel, published in 1937-1938, which now seems impossible for those years, in the magazine "Literary Kazakhstan". The young sub-lieutenant Gavriil Derzhavin (not yet a famous poet and not yet an important state official) must catch the rebellious convict Pugachev, who called himself by the name of the late emperor. Derzhavin Dombrovsky does not want to be an executioner, but also to retreat from the existing order is not going to, he - "a man of rules" and sees that "around treason."
"But rebellions," said Derzhavin, "but the blood that flooded the land, but fires, gallows? Did you know what you were doing? You, as a man of education, how could you lead this blinded crowd?"
"Dombrovsky looked into the abyss of correlations between fate and poet, genius and villainy." "Derzhavin is not a novelized biography, but an energetic debut, replete with poignant situations and imbued with a current of high tension."
Yuri Davydov
"Derzhavin, or the Crash of the Empire" - the first and unfinished novel, published in 1937-1938, which now seems impossible for those years, in the magazine "Literary Kazakhstan". The young sub-lieutenant Gavriil Derzhavin (not yet a famous poet and not yet an important state official) must catch the rebellious convict Pugachev, who called himself by the name of the late emperor. Derzhavin Dombrovsky does not want to be an executioner, but also to retreat from the existing order is not going to, he - "a man of rules" and sees that "around treason."
"But rebellions," said Derzhavin, "but the blood that flooded the land, but fires, gallows? Did you know what you were doing? You, as a man of education, how could you lead this blinded crowd?"
"Dombrovsky looked into the abyss of correlations between fate and poet, genius and villainy." "Derzhavin is not a novelized biography, but an energetic debut, replete with poignant situations and imbued with a current of high tension."
Yuri Davydov
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