Books by sluckij (1 items)

Moscow: Vremja, 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 6.5 x 5.75 inches, publisher's boards, near fine, just a touch of soil and wear, previous owner's red chopmark stamp on title page. 502 pp. Soviet Russian poet, b. 1919. Though one of the most talented Soviet lyric poets of the middle generation, Slutski was believed to have been silenced for a number of years because of the often defiantly Jewish tone of his verse. His first efforts appeared as early as 1941, but it was not until well after Stalin's death that he was discovered by Ilya *Ehrenburg and the first anthology of his verse was allowed to appear (Pamyat, 1957). Slutski thereafter became firmly identified with the liberals in Soviet literature, sounding the alarm over the increasingly technocratic character of Soviet civilization that threatened destruction to the country's humanistic cultural heritage in Fiziki i liriki ("Physicists and Lyricists," 1959). Slutski's World War II army service brought him to the devastated Jewish… Read more