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  • - Young Belarusian Poets in the Early Twenty-First Century
    by Arnold McMillin
    £35.99

    Spring Shoots introduces individually the early work of two score young Belarusian poets, all of whom began writing after the start of the present regime. This is the first such survey in any language, including Belarusian. All poetic illustrations are cited in the original and accompanied by English prose translations. The poets' work is presented in eight loosely thematic groups: the historical heritage, religion, protest at alienation and repression, use and defence of the language, the lyrical impulse, humour, performance poetry and the theme of writing itself and poetic inspiration. Also very important in these poems are the joys and tribulations of love. By using the Belarusian language, the poets are helping to save it from decades of erosion and official devaluation, so that their discussion of it is often poignant, particularly as language is a central part of the also suppressed historical heritage. Other types of verse such as humorous, lyrical or that for performance, are less central to the Belarusian situation, but the angry and bitter protest poems serve as perhaps a release valve, as small editions of poems are far less conspicuous than the expression of such feelings on the street, which always meets bitter reprisals.

  • - Essays on the Russian Novel in Honor of Richard Freeborn
    by Arnold McMillin
    £47.99

    Study of the Russian novel has been the greatest scholarly contribution of Richard Freeborn, and in this volume some of his former colleagues and pupils offer in homage new essays ranging from re-examination of classical texts to analysis of still-neglected twentieth-century works.

  • - The West as Reflected in Recent Russian Emigre Writing
    by Arnold McMillin
    £93.99

    The authors include several well-known writers such as Aksenov, Gladilin, Zinik and Loseff as well as Soviet and Western scholars, and the result is both varied and surprising: in the light it throws on the Russian mentality, on the phenomenon of exile and on aspects of the West.

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