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A Russian jew of Bloomsbury : the life and times of Samuel Koteliansky / Galya Diment

Montréal [u.a.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011

XII, 438 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Acknowledgments -- Illustrations following pages 11 and 186 -- Introduction: Right Place, Right Time -- Part 1.From ShmiliK To Kot: 1880-1930 -- 1.Shmilik -- 2."Kot": The Jew in London -- 3.Year 1915: Kot as Kangaroo -- 4.Revolutions and Catastrophes -- 5.H.G. Wells in Russia and the Death of Mansfield -- 6.Translating for the Hogarth Press -- 7.The Adelphi Affair and the Café Royal -- 8.Rozanov and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The End of an Era -- Part 2.After Lawrence: 1931-1955 -- 9.Mournings: Old Enemies and New Friends -- 10.Cresset Press: Losing Equilibrium -- 11.May Sarton, Ottoline's Death, and Gertler's Suicide -- 12.World War II and Its Aftermath -- 13.Full Circle -- Post Mortem -- Appendices -- A.S.S. Koteliansky, 1880-1955: A Chronology -- B.Who's Who in Koteliansky's Life in England -- c.Lady Glenavy: More Memories of Kot -- D.Koteliansky and Stephen Spender -- E.Two Letters from Frieda Lawrence to Koteliansky -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Erscheint: 01. Dezember 2011

978-0-7735-3899-3 ((hbk.) £40.00); 0-7735-3899-2 ((hbk.) £40.00)

2012370397

015864759

OCoLC: 719427492     

OCoLC: 779776013 (aus SWB)     

Biografie, 1880-1955 | Biografie

KK 1950  | KK 8510  | NY 4750      Ähnliche Literatur

PR478.B46

418/.02092 ; 418.02092

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 17.95 (Literarische Übersetzung) ; 18.53 (Russische Literatur)

* Koteliansky, S. S. [1880-1955] ; Biografie ; Biografie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Koteliansky, S. S -- (Samuel Solomonovitch) -- 1880-1955 ; Koteliansky, S. S -- (Samuel Solomonovitch) -- 1880-1955 -- Friends and associates ; Koteliansky, S. S -- (Samuel Solomonovitch) -- 1880-1955 -- Influence ; Translators -- Great Britain -- Biography ; Jews -- Great Britain -- Biography ; Bloomsbury group

Koteliansky, S. S / (Samuel Solomonovitch), 1880-1955 ; Translators / Ukraine / Biography ; Jews / Ukraine / Biography ; Jews / Great Britain / Biography ; Great Britain / Intellectual life / 20th century

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-427) and index

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Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, became an indispensable guide to Russian culture for England's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals, who in turn helped introduce English audiences to Russian works

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