Ki︠u︡khli︠a︡. English

Küchlya : Decembrist poet : a novel / Yury Tynianov ; [translated by Anna Kurkina Rush, Peter France, and Christopher Rush].

Boston : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021.

xxxv, 357 pages ; 23 cm

Includes some poems in Russian and English.

"The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yury Tynyanov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Tynianov, Yuri, 1894- Küchlya Boston : Cherry Orchard Books, 2021

English; Russian

December 09, 2021

Includes bibliographical references.