Tamizdat

Opustelyi dom RU

Опустелый дом

Lydia Chukovskaya

Information

Realm

Russian

Author

Lydia Chukovskaya

Title

Opustelyi dom

Subitle

Lydia Chukovskaya. Opustelyi dom. Cover design by Yuri Annenkov. Paris: Librarie de Cinq Continents, 1965.

Place of Publication

Paris

Publisher

Librairie des Cinq Continents

Date of Publication

1965

Illustrations

Material Type

Book

Language

Russian

Cover designer

Yuri Annenkov

Cover Designer

Yuri Annenkov

Publisher

Librairie des Cinq Continents

Description

Lydia Chukovskaya. Opustelyi dom. Cover design by Yuri Annenkov. Paris: Librarie de Cinq Continents, 1965.

Paratexts 6

Preface 1967

Gleb Struve. A Classic of the Purge: Gleb Struve

Sir, – It may interest your reviewer, your readers, and other students of present-day Russian literature that Lydia Chukovskaya’s The Deserted House (February 16) was to be brought out by the same publisher (Cinq Continents, Paris) towards the end of 1965 under a different title...

Preface 1967

Publisher. Letter to the Editor of Russkaia Mysl' Regarding the book The Deserted House: Lydia Chukovskaia

Your introduction to the “Open Letter of Lydia Chukovskaia to M. Sholokhov” (“La Pensee Russe.” No. 2549) begins with these words: “Quite recently, in Paris, the publishing house “Five Continents” published the Soviet writer Lydia Chukovskaya’s novella “The Deserted House”...

Preface 1974

Zhores Medvedev. False Detective Story in the Newspaper 'Sovetskaia Rossiia': Michael Scammell

Preface 1967

Alexander Werth. A Classic of the Purge: Alexander Werth

Preface 1966

Editorial Preface to Open Letter of the Writer Lydia Chukovskaia to Mikhail Sholokhov: Lydia Chukovskaia

Preface 1972

Court Hearing of Lydia Chukovskaia Against the Publishing House 'Sovetskii pisatel'

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Reviews 14

Review 1979

Marika Boshyk. Review of The Deserted House (1978) by Lydia Chukovskaia: Maryka Boshyk

The author states that her story's claim to the reader's attention lies in its documentary value as a work written with the impression of the events of the great purges still fresh in her mind. Written in 1939 at great personal risk and kept hidden until 1961 when Chukovskaia submitted it to Novyi mir for publication...

Review 1980

Victor Terras. Review of The Deserted House (1978) by Lydia Chukovskaia: Victor Terras

Lydia Chukovskaia’s short novel, written in 1939-40 and first published in 1966, appears here in a reprint of Aline B. Werth’s excellent 1967 translation, which was based, unfortunately, on the Paris book version (Opustelyi dom)...

Review 1966

Yuri Bolshukhin. Review of Novyi Zhurnal, №84: Yuri Bolshukhin

The ending of the novella by Lydia Chukovskaia “Sofia Petrovna” is a sorrowful document on being “there, where my people unfortunately were” (A. Akhmatova). What is there to say about this composition? There is not much artistic merit in it...

Review 1967

Alexander Werth. A Classic of the Purge: Alexander Werth

It is to be hoped that this remarkable and superbly written little book will soon be published in English. It is just as significant and, in its own way, fully as masterly as Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich...

Review 1967

Purge Literature. Article 58: Varlam Shalamov

In 1962, Evgeny Evtushenko called to his country, “Double, triple the amount of guards at this tombstone!”

The soviet writer’s warning concerned with a revival of the Stalinist past is addressed in his “Stalin’s Inheritance” (the title of Evtushenko’s poem)...

Review 1972

Mikhail Koriakov. Catalogue of Samizdat: Mikhail Koriakov

Review 1966

Grigory Aronson. Review of Novyi Zhurnal, №83: Yuri Bolshukhin

Review 1967

David Gallagher. Friends and Enemies: David Gallagher

In our lengthy review of the Russian original of The Deserted House (TLS, February 16, 1967) we hoped “that this remarkable and superbly written little book will soon be published in English[...

Review 1967

Nikolai Belov. The Second Life of Evgenia Ginzburg: Nikolai Belov

“This last year of my first life, abruptly cut off in February of 1937, has been surprisingly contradictory for me,” Evgenia Semenovna Ginzburg writes in her memoirs that were recently published in Milan in Russian under the title Krutoi Marshrut [Into the Whirlwind]...

Review 1966

Yuri Terapiano. Review of Novyi Zhurnal, №83: Yuri Terapiano

Review 1966

Yuri Terapiano. Review of Novyi Zhurnal, №84: Yuri Terapiano

Review 1977

Ekaterina Breitbart. The Keeper of Traditions (Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaia): Ekaterina Breitbart

Review 1972

E.B. Going Under: Kornei Chukovsky

Review 1966

Nikolai Belov. "The Deserted House": Nikolai Belov

Among the heaps of memoirs and reminiscences, a pearl is finally found – Lydia Chukovskaia’s “The Deserted House.”

Written in Maupassant-like style of La Vie d’une Femme, it dives into the life of a mother, a widow living in the Soviet times of trouble in the late 1930s...

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Correspondence 1967

Gleb Struve - Alexandre Bachrach (March 14, 1967): Gleb Struve

Have you seen in the literary supplement to the London “Times” from March 9th my letter regarding their review of L. K. Chukovskaia’s novella, which appeared in Novyi Zhurnal under the title "Sofiya Petrovna" and then in Paris under the title Opustelyi Dom?

Last year Y...

Correspondence 1967

Nikolai Morshen - Roman Goul (January 29, 1967): Roman Goul

What a great job Lydia Chukovskaia did! Both in "Sofiya Petrova" and – in particular – in her letter to Sholokhov. I bow to her to the earth. She is the one the world should admire, not Yevtushenko, even though he may...

Correspondence 1966

Vladimir Markov - Gleb Struve (October 16, 1966): Vladimir Markov

I have not read Chukovskaia’s "Novella," it is difficult for me to begin on prose. Lyda read it and said that it is phony.

Correspondence 1966

Roman Goul - Boris Filippov (October 4, 1966): Roman Goul

I kept the typeset of the novella by L. Chukovskaia and will release it as a separate book. But then I thought that perhaps your publishing house would be interested in publishing this novella? Then I would give you a ready-made typeset. We would save a few hundred dollars...

Correspondence 1966

Kornei Chukovsky - Sonia Gordon (July 15, 1966): Kornei Chukovsky

I was very excited by the news about the little novella being printed abroad without the knowledge or permission of the author. Here It had been in two editorial offices, and apparently, some enterpriser made a copy of it for himself. The author did not know what happened...

Correspondence 1966

Kornei Chukovsky - Sonia Gordon (July 21, 1966): Kornei Chukovsky

I informed my daughter of the fact you reported to me that some quarterly had printed her work, and she would like to know who took it from the editorial office of the

Correspondence 1965

Yuri Annenkov - Kornei Chukovsky. 1965: Yuri Annenkov

I am writing to you <…> also because the Parisian publishing house Piat’ Kontinentov asked me to find out if you received Lyda’s book, which they released in several test copies to be sent to you and Lyda. The publisher really wants to know your opinion on his work and about the potential future of the book...

Correspondence 1966

Boris Filippov - Roman Goul (October 27, 1966): Boris Filippov

About Chukovskaia: my publishing budget is not impersonal but distributed between individual authors and books. I, alas, cannot, for example, replace one book with another, and even publish a book by scrimping on printing costs for other books. Chukovskaia's novella would...

Correspondence 1966

Roman Goul - Boris Filippov (October 23, 1966): Roman Goul

Why is your publishing house so slow to answer about the publication of the novella by Lydia Chukovskaia? I believe this to be a very straightforward matter.

Correspondence 1966

Boris Filippov - Roman Goul (October 11, 1966): Boris Filippov

Many thanks for your proposal to publish the novella by L. Chukovskaia under the brand of our publishing house. I haven't received the second half of the novella yet since I don't yet have the 84th volume of Novyi Zhurnal. As soon as I receive it (this will be any day now)...

Correspondence 1966

Sonia Gordon - Kornei Chukovsky (May 21, 1966): Roman Grynberg

Today I received a local Russian magazine in which your daughter Lydia’s short story "Sofiya Petrovna" was printed (for the first time). The editors indicate in a note that they published it without the knowledge or consent of the author...

Correspondence 1966

Yuri Annenkov - Lydia Chukovskaia (November 11, 1966): Yuri Annenkov

I am very thankful to you for your letter and your response to the book. I do not think you will object the question of translating it into French. As for the introductory article, I think an article by the academic Troyat the academic would be the most valuable...