Notes From The Blockade

Author : Lydia Ginzburg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446475591

Get Book

Notes From the Blockade by Lydia Ginzburg Pdf

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation. Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit. This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and annotated by Emily van Buskirk. This edition includes ‘A Story of Pity and Cruelty’, a recently discovered documentary narrative translated into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone.

Author : Lidiy Ginzburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1846553415

Get Book

Blockade Diary by Lidiy Ginzburg Pdf

The 900-day siege of Lenningrad (1941-440 was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. From her own experience as a survivor of the blockade and using facts, conversations and impressions collected over the years, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable everyman hero in whom she distils the collective experience of life under siege. Though the author may depict, often painfully, the hunger and harrowing conditions of that period, the reader takes away a different impression: the dignity, vitality and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it records and makes sense of extreme experience. This first translation of a classic work of documentary fiction, reminscient of the work of Primo Levi and Albert Camus, introduces a major twentieth-century Russian writer to English-language readers.

Author : Lidii͡a Ginzburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Saint Petersburg (Russia)
ISBN : 0002730332

Get Book

Notes from the Blockade, And, A Story of Pity and Cruelty by Lidii͡a Ginzburg Pdf

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation. Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112203937901

Get Book

Law Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bassett Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : International law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049918907

Get Book

Modes of redress; war; maritime war; prize courts; contraband; blockade; neutrality by John Bassett Moore Pdf

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141924977

Get Book

The Siege by Helen Dunmore Pdf

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive... The Siege is a brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival. 'Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph 'Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there' Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph 'Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should. . . a world-class novel' Antony Beevor, The Times Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue-Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart, Burning Bright, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby, A Spell of Winter, and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin.

Author : Archibald Colquhoun Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015020922475

Get Book

A History of the Blockade of Germany and the Countries Associated with Her in the Great War, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, 1914-1918 by Archibald Colquhoun Bell Pdf

Author : Avi Shlaim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520337343

Get Book

The United States and the Berlin Blockade 1948-1949 by Avi Shlaim Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Author : Pamela Chester,Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253210429

Get Book

Engendering Slavic Literatures by Pamela Chester,Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester Pdf

Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works. Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.

Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476636436

Get Book

British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War by Joseph McKenna Pdf

Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy. The daring exploits of Confederate blockade runners are well known--but many of them were British citizens operating out of neutral ports such as Nassau, Havana and Bermuda. Focusing on British involvement in the war, this history names the overseas bankers and manufacturers who, in critical need of cotton and other Confederate exports, financed and equipped the fast little ships that ran the blockade. The author attempts to disentangle the names and aliases of the captains--many of whom were Royal Navy officers on temporary leave--and tells their stories in their own words.

Author : United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172016632451

Get Book

Notes on the Spanish-American War ... by United States. Office of Naval Intelligence Pdf

Author : Emily Van Buskirk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780691166797

Get Book

Lydia Ginzburg's Prose by Emily Van Buskirk Pdf

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902–90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and other members of the Russian intelligentsia through seven traumatic decades of Soviet history. In this book, the first full-length English-language study of the writer, Emily Van Buskirk presents Ginzburg as a figure of previously unrecognized innovation and importance in the literary landscape of the twentieth century. Based on a decade's work in Ginzburg’s archives, the book discusses previously unknown manuscripts and uncovers a wealth of new information about the author’s life, focusing on Ginzburg’s quest for a new kind of writing adequate to her times. She writes of universal experiences—frustrated love, professional failures, remorse, aging—and explores the modern fragmentation of identity in the context of war, terror, and an oppressive state. Searching for a new concept of the self, and deeming the psychological novel (a beloved academic specialty) inadequate to express this concept, Ginzburg turned to fragmentary narratives that blur the lines between history, autobiography, and fiction. This full account of Ginzburg’s writing career in many genres and emotional registers enables us not only to rethink the experience of Soviet intellectuals, but to arrive at a new understanding of writing and witnessing during a horrific century.

Author : Antoine Henri baron de Jomini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026270034

Get Book

Life of Napoleon ... Translated from the French, with Notes, by H. W. Halleck. With an Atlas by Antoine Henri baron de Jomini Pdf

Author : Hilde Hoogenboom,Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,Irina Reyfman
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132225249

Get Book

Mapping the Feminine by Hilde Hoogenboom,Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,Irina Reyfman Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T004128940

Get Book

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf