Opustelyi dom — Tamizdat Project

Book 1965

Opustelyi dom RU

Опустелый дом

Lydia Chukovskaia

Opustelyi dom Опустелый дом

Information

Realm

Russian

Author

Lydia Chukovskaia

Title

Opustelyi dom

Place of Publication

Paris

Publisher

Librairie des Cinq Continents

Date of Publication

1965

Material Type

Book

Language

Russian

Cover Designer

Yuri Annenkov

Description

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

Paratexts 2

Preface 1974

False Detective Story in the Newspaper 'Sovetskaia Rossiia': Leonid Rzhevsky

Preface 1966

Lydia Chukovskaia's Open Letter to Mikhail Sholokhov with Editorial Preface: Lydia Chukovskaia

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)...

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Mention in 16

Correspondence 1967

Gleb Struve - Alexandre Bachrach: 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: Nikolai Morhsen

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 be more talented!

Letter to the Editor 1967

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...

Letter to the Editor 1967

Letter to the Editor of Russkaia Mysl' Regarding the book The Deserted House

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”...

Correspondence 1966

Vladimir Markov - Gleb Struve: 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.

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