Wings (Modern Voices) - Softcover

Kuzmin, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184391431X ISBN 13: 9781843914310

Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2007

Unusual book

Críticas:

'On first publication, it was critically savaged, but as other more famous authors and playwrights, such as Chekhov, continue to bask in the glow of acclaim, Kuzmin's work has been overlooked, if not totally ignored. As with a great deal of literature from that part of the world, there is a dark intensity within. And, yet there is also a grim humour, too, that offsets the possible portentousness of this author's work.' --QX Magazine

'Kuzmin's work here is much more complex than its slim size might initially indicate. On one hand, this is the first Russian novel to engage the subject of homosexuality, but Kuzmin is not content to crank out a turn-of-the-century coming out story. Instead he crafts a tale in which the protagonist, Vanya Smurov, begins to come to terms with his queerness at the end of a long journey that really centers on placing Russian cultural and intellectual history firmly in the European dominated historical narrative. Thus, he ''comes out'' with his nation, as one.' --Queeringtheapparatus blog

'...mesmerizingly intelligent, confoundingly constructed and undeniably Russian...'Wings' is, at its heart, about the bold courage love requires and the unbreakable tie we all eventually find within us - the one that exists between ourselves and the soul that first awakens our passions. It is a novel as complicated as its subject matter, and as revolutionary as its author.' --bilerico.com

Reseña del editor:

A key text in the history of gay literature, Wings was published in 1906 to the scandalized reaction of contemporary society and the generations which followed. Its central theme of aestheticized sensuality has drawn comparisons with the work of contemporaries Oscar Wilde and André Gide. The young Vanya Smurov is deeply attached to his mentor, Dr. Larion Stroop, and to the world of Renaissance art which the latter reveals to him. Initially appalled by the sudden discovery of Stroop's homosexual leanings, Vanya abandons him to pursue a "normal" heterosexual existence. In turn disgusted by ensuing encounters, he returns to Dr. Stroop and accompanies him to Italy where he begins his real education—both in the world of art, and that of hedonism.

• Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 184391431X
• ISBN 13: 9781843914310
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124