Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
11th February 2013
As many of you know, I am interested in the reception of anglophone writers in Russia. (See Wilde in Russia and its sequel.) One of the most popular Western writers in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century was Jack London. ‘Until the 1950’s, Jack London was by far the most popular American […]
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22nd January 2013
The Jamican–American writer Claude McKay spent seven months in early Soviet Russia, 1922–3, where he was ‘feted like a celebrity’. So it’s not surprising that his work was quickly translated into Russian, his poetry appearing regularly in translation from 1923 until well into the Thirties. This is a 1929 translation of the best-selling Home to Harlem (1928). […]
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