Voices In The Snow (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping along edges and top of spine. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: signed by the author with an inscription to John Freeman who was a prominent British journalist, politician, and editor. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A compelling memoir and portrait of Soviet literary life, Voices in the Snow presents the vivid personal accounts of Olga Andreyev Carlisle — granddaughter of the celebrated Russian writer Leonid Andreyev — as she chronicles her remarkable meetings with some of the most towering figures of 20th-century Russian literature and art. With intimate authority, Carlisle recounts her encounters with Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and a generation of young Soviet artists navigating the uneasy thaw of post-Stalinist Russia. Written with elegance and warmth, the narrative illuminates the tension between artistic freedom and state control that defined Soviet cultural life, offering an insider's perspective that no outsider could replicate. A rare and deeply human document, it stands as both a literary memoir and a nuanced witness account of a pivotal era in Russian history.
Author: Olga Andreyev Carlisle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping along edges and top of spine. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: signed by the author with an inscription to John Freeman who was a prominent British journalist, politician, and editor. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A compelling memoir and portrait of Soviet literary life, Voices in the Snow presents the vivid personal accounts of Olga Andreyev Carlisle — granddaughter of the celebrated Russian writer Leonid Andreyev — as she chronicles her remarkable meetings with some of the most towering figures of 20th-century Russian literature and art. With intimate authority, Carlisle recounts her encounters with Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and a generation of young Soviet artists navigating the uneasy thaw of post-Stalinist Russia. Written with elegance and warmth, the narrative illuminates the tension between artistic freedom and state control that defined Soviet cultural life, offering an insider's perspective that no outsider could replicate. A rare and deeply human document, it stands as both a literary memoir and a nuanced witness account of a pivotal era in Russian history.