ABSTRACT
This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history to produce some of his country’s greatest poetry and its most significant modern novel.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|60 pages
Maze of Melodies (1890–1923)
part Two|86 pages
Flirting with History (1923–1946)
part Three|116 pages
Enemy of the People (1946–1960)