Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters [Paperback]

This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov.Disintegration of the Atom(1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian ?migr? despair on the eve of WWIIa cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness.Petersburg Winters(1928/1952) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanovs contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam.Acknowledgments

On Transliteration, Sources, and Annotation

Introduction: . . . Struck by all the horrors of human disillusionment . . .:

Miseries and Splendors of Georgy Ivanovs Citational Prose DISINTEGRATION OF THE ATOM

PETERSBURG WINTERS

NotesGeorgy Ivanovs brilliant and controversialPetersburg Winters(1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealisticDisintegration of the Atom(1937), a prose poem of Parisian ?migr? life moving erotically in wars shadow at the speed of darkness.Jerome Katsellwas born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and is an independent scholar and translator.

Stanislav Shvabrinteaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.