Denis Bushuev

Maksimov, S.

Verlag: Possev, 1958

Beschreibung

355 pp. Covers restored, some wear, owner's stamps. Volume 1 and only. First edition. Rare. "Denis Bushuev" is a family novel, the action of which takes place in the Upper Volga during the years of collectivization and Stalinist repressions. At the center of the narrative, all the threads of which are drawn to the villages on the banks of the great Russian river, are the dramatic fates of the Bushuev, Akhtyrov and Beletsky families. The author shows how people s insight occurred. Sergei Sergeevich Maksimov (real name Pashin; 1916 - 1967) - writer, in 1936 -1941. was imprisoned in the Pechora concentration camp, since 1943 - in exile in Germany, employee of the Eastern Department of the Ministry of Propaganda of the German Reich, co-editor of the magazine "Grani" (since 1946), since June 1949 - in the USA. Maksimov s novel Denis Bushuev and the collection of short stories Taiga were far ahead of the camp prose of A. Solzhenitsyn and V. Shalamov. The Revolt of Denis Bushuev is a continuation of the novel Denis Bushuev , the action of which takes place in Stalin s times, and it depicts both the inner life of people and their relationships, and the threat to this life from the state government with its camps, which ultimately destroys family. On the flyleaf there is a detailed dedicatory inscription of the author to E.N. Neledinsky dated August 5, 1958. Addressee of the inscript Evgeniy Nikolaevich Neledinsky [literary pseudonym Evgeniy Shugaev] - August 10, 1886, Pskov - January 23, 1963, New York - Participant of the White movement in the South of Russia, Architectural engineer, publicist. After the October Revolution of 1917 - in the white troops in the South of Russia. After 1920 - in exile in Czechoslovakia. Graduated from the architectural department of the Polytechnic Institute in Prague (1927). Author of articles in the magazine Russian Architect Abroad (Prague, 1935-1939). After 1945 - in West Germany. Lived in Hamburg, published on the pages of the weekly magazine Put . Author of articles published in the newspaper Posev and the magazine Grani (Frankfurt am Main). In the USA since 1950. Lived in New York. He was a full member of the Society of Russian Engineers in the USA. He taught Russian at Georgetown University. After retirement, he was engaged in translations into Russian for the publishing house named after A.P. Chekhov (New York). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 13935

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Denis Bushuev

Verlag: Possev

Erscheinungsdatum: 1958

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good