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Book Description: "Безгрешное сладострастие речи" by Elena D. Tolstaya
This compelling monograph sheds light on the overlooked prose of Nadezhda Bromley, a poet, director, and playwright whose experimental works from the 1920s–1930s were dismissed by critics and later forgotten. Elena D. Tolstaya argues that Bromley’s sharp eye, keen ear, expressive language, and brutal wit mark her as a serious prose writer. Her fantastical and historical novellas consistently explore revolutions—whether the French Revolution, a rebellion of the elements, or an uprising of angels. The free spirit breathing through Bromley’s prose partly explains her difficult reception, yet it is precisely this quality that makes revisiting her forgotten works so relevant today.
The first part of the book is a monograph on Bromley’s oeuvre; the second part collects Tolstaya’s articles on other vivid figures of the era, from Marc Chagall and Evgeny Vakhtangov to Maximilian Voloshin and Vladimir Nabokov.
Elena D. Tolstaya is a literary scholar, writer, and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has authored monographs on Anton Chekhov and Alexei Tolstoy, as well as a series of articles on Andrei Platonov.
Price: 1592.00 RUR
