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SUMMARY:Leningrad Samizdat Poetry: Music for a Deaf Age - Josie von Zitzew
 itz (Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Samizdat series: Book presentation\n\nThe Religious-Philosophi
 cal Seminar (Leningrad 1974-1980) was an underground study group where you
 ng intellectuals staged debates\, read poetry and circulated their own typ
 ewritten journal\, called “37”. The journal offered a platform to poet
 s who subsequently entered the canon of Russian 20th-century literature\, 
 such as Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010).\n\nJose
 phine von Zitzewitz’s book can be read in different ways: as a study of 
 a prominent current in 20th-century Russian poetry or of Leningrad undergr
 ound culture from a literary angle\; as an enquiry into the intersection b
 etween literary and spiritual concerns\; or as separate case studies of fi
 ve poets belonging to a special generation.\nThe talk and book presentatio
 n will be accompanied by historic recordings of the poets under study poet
 s reading their work.\n\nJosephine von Zitzewitz is Leverhulme Early Caree
 r Fellow in Russian Studies at the University of Cambridge\, having previo
 usly held appointments at Oxford University. She specialises in the litera
 ture and culture of the late Soviet Union\, in particular samizdat and Len
 ingrad culture of the Brezhnev era.\n
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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