Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary contexts at play in the 1970s.
Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary contexts at play in the 1970s.
Sarah D. Phillips is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. She is the author of two award-winning books, Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine (2008) and Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (2010).
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration List of Abbreviations List of Soviet and Russian Journals and Publishing Houses in English 1. Introduction 2. Interlude: 48 hours in Leningrad, 1967 3. The Translator 4. Interlude: Rendezvous in Paris, 1972 5. Vonnegut and Soviet Readers 6. Interlude: Five Days in Moscow, 1974 7. The Wanderings of Billy Pilgrim, or Cinderella in the Concentration Camp 8. Finding Comrade Vonnegut: Vonnegut and His Soviet Critics 9. Interlude: No Free Breakfast in the Land of Lenin, 1977 10. Vonnegut and the Dissidents 11. Conclusion: Back to the Future Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration List of Abbreviations List of Soviet and Russian Journals and Publishing Houses in English 1. Introduction 2. Interlude: 48 hours in Leningrad, 1967 3. The Translator 4. Interlude: Rendezvous in Paris, 1972 5. Vonnegut and Soviet Readers 6. Interlude: Five Days in Moscow, 1974 7. The Wanderings of Billy Pilgrim, or Cinderella in the Concentration Camp 8. Finding Comrade Vonnegut: Vonnegut and His Soviet Critics 9. Interlude: No Free Breakfast in the Land of Lenin, 1977 10. Vonnegut and the Dissidents 11. Conclusion: Back to the Future Bibliography Index
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