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Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the absurdity of a cultural-political experiment that destroyed his family's life, his own career, and that of many of his colleagues. By the time of Etkind's death, he did not rework these essays into a continuous narrative. Originally published in Russian, this first-ever English translation prepared by Etkind's daughter presents his memoirs as a document of his time, without any changes or abridgements. The editors' additions are limited to several notes, proofreading of quotes, and checking or inserting the full forms of the characters' names.
Contents
In
Lieu of a Foreword
He
Outsmarted Us
Full
Repair!
The
Marquis de Lapunaise
The
Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
Looking
through the Walls
The
Double
Ferenc,
Count Batthyány
Ebensee
"On the Sly"
How
We Lived
"The
Blond Hidden in a Bottle"
Triumph
of Spirit
Up the Down Stairscase
It Turned Out Okay
About the Axe
Last Meeting
Pavel Antokolsky:
Generation of the Blind
Cousin
"The Other"
The Cowardice of a Brave
Man
Two Jewish Fates: Reading
the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
"Youth in a Military
Blouse" of My Contemporary
Afterword: A Knight of Culture by David Bethea
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