Both contemporaries and current researchers cannot treat Sergei Yesenin impartially, however, the book of Moscow literary critics Oleg Lekmanov and Mikhail Sverdlov is a rare (and therefore valuable) example of an extremely “objectified” narrative.
Both contemporaries and current researchers cannot treat Sergei Yesenin impartially, however, the book of Moscow literary critics Oleg Lekmanov and Mikhail Sverdlov is a rare (and therefore valuable) example of an extremely “objectified” narrative. The authors, of course, have their own point of view, but they deliberately do not give free rein to personal sympathies, and entrust their emotions to the characters they carefully quote: from Gorky, an admirer of the poet, to Bunin, no less ardent subvert Yesenin. The eleven chapters of the book are the story of the ascent of a peasant boy from the village of Konstantinovo to the heights of Russian poetry. The authors thoroughly analyze the myth of a conspiracy against Yesenin and the murder of the poet, which determined Yesenin’s «posthumous» fate, which turned out to be no less controversial than his turbulent life.
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