Sarah D Phillips

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Herausgeber: Baer, Brian James; Woods, Michelle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765132203
• Artikelnr.: 74865370

Autorenporträt

Sarah D. Phillips

Inhaltsangabe

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