Böcker av Victor Erlich

This text examines the innovations and experimentations of modernism in Russian literature during its most turbulent years. Covering artistic prose, poetry and criticism, it analyzes how revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics related to one another.

Victor Erlich was born in 1914, in Petrograd, a place marked by that century's violent dislocations and upheavals. His story, begun on the eve of the WWI, is a memoir of that ""real twentieth century,"" reflecting its lethal nature and shaped by the ""fearful symmetry"" of the age of totalitarianism.