Encore -- Living pictures / Polina Barskova ; translated from the Russian by Catherine Ciepiela ; introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky.

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Living pictures / Polina Barskova ; translated from the Russian by Catherine Ciepiela ; introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky.

Barskova, Polina,

Książka | New York Review Books | 2022

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Adres wydawniczy	New York : New York Review Books, [2022] ©2022
Opis fizyczny	xv, 171 pages ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier
Tytuł ujednolicony	Zhivye kartiny. English
Seria	New York Review Books classics.
Uwagi	"The prolonged German siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was among the most destructive sieges in history, leading to mass starvation and well over a million deaths. The contemporary Russian poet and scholar Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad, has done extensive research on the siege in archives in St. Petersburg, research that has borne fruit in Living Pictures, an extraordinary dramatization of life under the most extreme of circumstances. In the remarkable title piece of the collection, set in the winter of 1941 and 1942, Mosej and Antonina, a young couple who work in the Hermitage, refuse to take shelter underground, remaining instead in the grand galleries of the palatial museum. Their experience begins almost as a lark, as they recite poetry, perform tableaux vivants based on Rembrandt paintings, and retell the story of the Snow Queen. Inevitably, however, cold and hunger take over, and as they do the two characters fall silent, or rather, their imagined voices are replaced by documented voices of the siege, as if the reader had tuned into a ghostly radio channel. Living Pictures is an uncanny and poignant masterpiece in which Barskova brilliantly explores the vertiginous divide between individual suffering and recorded history"-- Provided by publisher.
Temat	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union -- Fiction. Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction. Military campaigns. Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg. Soviet Union.
Gatunek	short stories. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Short stories. Historical fiction. Short stories.
Hasło dodatkowe	Ciepiela, Catherine, Ostashevsky, Eugene,
Powiązania	Online version: Barskova, Polina. Living pictures New York : New York Review Books, [2022] 9781681376608 (DLC) 2021050257
ISBN	9781681376592 (paperback) 1681376598 (paperback) 9781681376608 (ebook) 1681376601 (ebook)