Těžká lyra

A comprehensive collection of poetry and essays by the Russian post-Symbolist, late contemporary of Acmeism, and leading representative of post-revolutionary literary emigration Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939). The work of this modern Orpheus, who programmatically did not "break the circle" of the classical tradition and whose idyllic verses gradually fell silent in exile under the weight of "prosaic genre scenes from the post-war days", has been translated in this country only in fragments, and the exile's work remained completely sidelined until the 1990s. The book includes a selection from the poetry collections The Happy House (1914), On the Way of Grain (1920), The Heavy Lyre (1922), the culminating collection The European Night (1927), poems from the estate and essays - Pompeian Terror, The Stirred Tripod (Pushkin), Gumilyov and Blok, The Stallion with a Decolletage (Mayakovsky), Literature in Exile, On Sirin (Nabokov), The Dying of Art and others

Czech edition