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    The Russian Jerusalem

    By Elaine Feinstein

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    Beginning in present day St. Petersburg, this novel explores the landscape of 20th century Russian literature through imagined encounters with the great writers of Russia's literary past. With poet Marina Tsvetaeva as the guide, meet the ghosts of writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and Joseph Brodsky, whose worlds are interspersed with original poems, new translations of Russian poems, and striking images of Stalinist propaganda. This book reconstructs the tragic lives of many Russian writers, often Jewish, during the long period of Soviet terror and re-establishes them at the heart of the European literary tradition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
    Release dateAug 21, 2008
    ISBN9781847777843
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    The Russian Jerusalem
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    Elaine Feinstein

    Elaine Feinstein read English at Cambridge, and lived there for a quarter of a century with her husband and three children, supervising undergraduates and writing poems, novels and plays, as well as reviews for London newspapers. She has appeared at major festivals across the world and has been translated into most European languages. In 1981 Feinstein was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and later served on its Council. In 1990 she received a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, and was given an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester. Her novel Mother’s Girl was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize in the same year. Her first novel, The Circle (1970) was longlisted for the ‘lost’ Man Booker prize in 2010. Her five biographies include Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (2001; 2016), shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize; and Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova (2005), which has been translated into twelve languages, including Russian. She has served as a judge for all the major literary awards, and was Chair of the Judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1995. She received an Arts Council Award for her work on The Russian Jerusalem (2004).

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    • 4/5
      Well written but in the end dissatisfying -- essentially a collection of anecdotes about Jewish writers who had trouble in the Soviet Union, held together by a dream-voyage with Feinstein's beloved Tsvetaeva. Unfortunately, Feinstein doesn't know enough about Russia and Soviet life to make it more than superficial, and I wasn't thrilled with her own poems (interspersed between chapters).