Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin

Wings (Modern Voices)

This book consists largely of previously untranslated work. Kuzmin was a master of many genres: poet, dramatist, writer of narrative prose, and influential literary manifestos. All these facets of Kuzmin's creativity are represented in this volume, which traces his development from a decadent to a key figure of Russia's artistic underground during the repression of the Soviet period. A cycle of poems, Thrall (1919), published here for the first time in English, provides the book with its dominant theme. Thrall is a leitmotif of Kuzmin's early love poetry, where it signifies a lover's impassioned submission. Kuzmin the playwright is represented here by his only full-length drama, The Death of Nero (1929); Kuzmin the prose writer by two short stories that exemplify contrasting periods of his evolution. The collection also contains two literary manifestos that played pivotal roles in the development of Russian letters. -- Bucknell University Press.

Selected Writings

Deeply attached to his mentor, Dr Stroop, Vanya Smurov is initially appalled by the discovery of Stroop's homosexual leanings and abandons him to pursue a 'normal' existence, but when he becomes disgusted by ensuing encounters, he returns to Dr Stroop and accompanies him to Italy where he begins his real education.

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