Disintegration of the Atom and Petersburg Winters - Paperback

by Georgy Ivanov (Author), Jerome Katsell (Translator), Stanislav Shvabrin (Translator)

Georgy Ivanov's brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war's shadow "at the speed of darkness."

Author Biography

Jerome Katsell was born in Brooklyn and raised Liberty, NY and Palo Alto, CA. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and is an independent scholar and translator.

Stanislav Shvabrin teaches Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.