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8%OFFE. E. Cummings - EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia - 9780871406521 - V9780871406521
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EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

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Description for EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia Paperback. A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; JPFC; JPVH2; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 404.
Unavailable for more than fifty years, EIMI finally returns. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness....Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!"

A stylistic tour de force, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871406521
SKU
V9780871406521
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About E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote ... Read more

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