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Bezig met laden... A captive of the Caucasus: journeys in Armenia and Georgiadoor Andrei Bitov
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Good heavens what a writer. A travelogue of Armenia that leaves you with both no knowledge at all about the place but also knowing everything. A writer who simultaneously tells us what is going on inside his head, gives us his view of the landscape, hovers above us in a helicopter and gives us the eagle eyed version and interprets it into the meaning of life. Full of digressions and full of detail but also the biggest of big pictures. Dear me that was a good read. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Harvill (155)
Russians visit the Caucasus with a sense of homecoming, Andrei Bitov--one of the Soviet Union's most gifted stylists--has remarked. They find there a world familiar from the moral and philosophic landscapes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy. In Lessons of Armenia, the first of the two personal memoirs that constitute this book, Bitov explores the way Pushkin's confines of boundless Russia seem never to be truly escapable. Though held in thrall by Armenia, a captive of the Caucasus, Bitov the traveler is a captive, however alienated, of his homeland, too. Bitov's works characteristically proceed from and comment on one another, and the realization of captivity leads to a different journey; the second account, Choosing a Location, an entertaining impressionistic record of his travels in Soviet Georgia, is Bitov's quest for his own place and time. Compellingly conceived and spectacularly crafted, A Captive of the Caucasus is an intellectually spirited inquiry into the persistent idea of homeland and the individual's identity, cultural and creative. When Lessons of Armenia first appeared in the Soviet Union in 1969, censors deleted its subtitle, Journey Out of Russia, and made numerous small cuts. This translation restores all the deletions. Choosing a Location could not be published in the Soviet Union. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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