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A Double Life / Karolina Pavlova.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian LibraryPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231190787
  • 9780231549110
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6045.A97 .P385 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Karolina Pavlova: The Woman Poet And The Double Life -- Dedication -- A Double Life -- 01 -- 02 -- 03 -- 04 -- 05 -- 06 -- 07 -- 08 -- 09 -- 10 -- Afterword. Karolina Pavlova: Translator And Writer
Summary: An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything.A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Karolina Pavlova: The Woman Poet And The Double Life -- Dedication -- A Double Life -- 01 -- 02 -- 03 -- 04 -- 05 -- 06 -- 07 -- 08 -- 09 -- 10 -- Afterword. Karolina Pavlova: Translator And Writer

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An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything.A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.

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