Literary St. Petersburg
A Guide to the City and its Writers
$36.65
- Paperback
140 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2007
Summary
A Guide to the City and Its Writers.Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature- set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifteen profiled writers, there is a biographical sketch focusing on his or her relationship to the city and a sense of his or her work, along with a list of St. Petersburg sites associated with the writer and the literary works.Travelers can wander through the museum where a teenage Vladimir Nabokov romanced his g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781892145376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1892145375 |
| Author: | Elaine Blair |
| Publisher: | Little Bookroom,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Little Bookroom,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 140 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 221mm x 111mm x 13mm |
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“A guide to famous St. Petersburg writers from Alexander Pushkin to Josef Brodsky with the expected information about museums and statues, also displays Blair’s refined critical temperament: It’s full of nuanced literary insights into the writers that one would never find in a Fodor’s or Frommer’s.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
“This compact guide begins with Russian literature’s birth in the former capital of imperial Russia..Blair’s itineraries are based on the lives of 15 of Russia’s most important writers…[and open] the city, if not the brooding Russian psyche, to the traveler.” –San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Elaine Blair
Elaine Blair was born in St. Petersburg. She is on the staff of The New York Review of Books. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, The Nation, Slate, and The Village Voice.
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