Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova

by Tomas Venclova and Ellen Hinsey

Book Overview

Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature. Venclova, who personally knew Akhmatova, Pasternak, Milosz, Brodsky, and many others, was also one of the five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469264
• ISBN13: 9781580469265
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"