Necropolis
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by Vladislav Khodasevich

Translated by Sarah Vitali

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir ...
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by Vladislav Khodasevich Translated by Sarah Vitali Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era. Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s following the deaths of its subjects, Necropolis is a literary graveyard in which an entire movement, Russian Symbolism, is buried. One of the greatest memoirs in Russian literature, Necropolis is a compelling work from an overlooked writer whose gifts for observation and irony show the early twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new and more intimate light. For more information please visit http://readrussia.org/russian-library/Necropolis.html