EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

Author: E. E. Cummings

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-12-17

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0871407582

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A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia. Unavailable for more than fifty years, EIMI finally returns. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness....Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!" A stylistic tour de force, EIMI is a mélange of styles and tones, the prose containing many abbreviations, grammatical and syntactical shifts, typographical devices, compounds, and word coinages. This is Cummings's invigorating and unique voice at its finest, and EIMI is without question one of his most substantial accomplishments.

Journey Into Russia
Journey Into Russia

Author: Laurens Van Der Post

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1448191483

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Laurens Van Der Post takes us behind the iron curtain of Soviet officialdom in a quest to discover the real Russia - a land full of enigma and secrecy, but treasured by its ordinary people.

Journey to the Soviet Union
Journey to the Soviet Union

Author: Samantha Smith

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780316801751

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A ten-year-old from Maine describes her trip to Russia at the invitation of Yuri Andropov after writing him a letter expressing her fears about a nuclear war.

On Living Through Soviet Russia
On Living Through Soviet Russia

Author: Daniel Bertaux

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780415309660

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For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.

Russian and American Poetry of Experiment
Russian and American Poetry of Experiment

Author: Vladimir Feshchenko

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9004526307

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An experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to these questions in Vladimir Feshchenko’s book. The study investigates various strategies of radical linguistic creativity in Russian and American experimental writing of the 20th century and explores cases of contemporary ‘language-oriented’ and ‘trans-language’ poetry. It is a comparative examination of two national avant-garde cultures, but also a juxtaposition of the relationships that Russian and American avant-garde poetics had with linguistic ideas of their times. The monograph may serve as a wonderful introduction to the entire field of ‘linguistic poetics of the avant-garde’.

Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia
Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia

Author: Christina Kiaer

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780253217929

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How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.

Eimi
Eimi

Author: Edward Estlin Cummings

Publisher:

Published: 1933

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781404780958

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A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.

Journey Through America
Journey Through America

Author: Wolfgang Koeppen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0857452312

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This volume by one of the best known German authors of the postwar period, is one of observation, analysis, and writing, and is based on his 1958 trip to the United States. Here the author presents a portrait of the United States in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if the author sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. It is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.