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Realm

Russian

Author

Lydia Chukovskaya

Title

The Deserted House

Subitle

Lydia Chukovskaya. The Deserted House. Tr. by Aline B. Werth. New York: Dutton, 1967.

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Dutton

Illustrations

No

Material Type

Book

Language

English

Publisher

Dutton

Translator

Aline B. Werth

Paratexts 1

Preface 1971

Hedrick Smith. Soviet Writer Fights Odessa Librarian's Conviction: Hedrick Smith

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 – A noted writer has accused an Odessa court of using the writings of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, two of the most famous Russian poets of the 20th century, to convict a 35-year-old Odessa librarian on charges of having distributed anti-Soviet literature...

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Reviews 14

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 1967

Gillian Freeman. Tyrannies: Svetlana Allilueva

We spend much of our limited time choosing in the mistaken belief that we have a choice. Not only do we worry whether or not we are making the right decisions now, but also whether we made the right ones in the past. Caught up in external events, we act within a psychologically determined framework...

Review 1967

Saul Maloff. Can Such Things Have Been?: Saul Maloff

Review 1967

Victim of a Stalin Purge

The Stalin purges, not only of the terrible years of 1937-39 but also of those of 1949-52, have been the subject of an ever-growing literature. Some, like General Gorbatov’s reminiscences and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day...

Review 1967

Merle Fainsod. One To Be Burned

Addressing a meeting of the literary artistic intelligentsia in Moscow on March 8, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev exclaimed, “They say that the magazines and publishing houses are flooded with manuscripts about the life of persons in exile...

Review 1968

Helen Muchnic. Nightmares

These books are concerned with the Stalinist purges. In Journey into the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg sets down the chronicle of her own imprisonment and exile; in The Deserted House Lydia Chukovskaya writes a short novel about what she saw in 1937...

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 1968

Thompson Bradley. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia

Review 1967

David Gallagher. Somewhere in Leningrad

Aline Werth

The Deserted House is in some ways a more fascinating description of Stalin’s purges even than Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, because the action takes place not in some safely distant camp but in Leningrad...

Review 1968

Robert Granat. The Great God Ninel

Review 1967

Montague Haltrecht. A Nightmare of the Purges

Montague Haltrecht

The Deserted House is history written from the point of view little people. A doctor’s widow is left after the Russian Revolution with a small son to support. She finds work as typist in a publishing firm, her son grows up a fervently loyal Communist...

Review 1967

Harrison E. Salisbury. Loyalty was the Error

Evgeny Evtushenko

On Dec. 1, 1934, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg was 27 years old, the mother of two young children, wife of a local Communist party official in the Volga River city of Kazan, a teacher, a worker on the local newspaper...

Review 1969

George Haupt. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia and Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg

George Haupt

After the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s now famous One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Soviet publishers have received thousands of manuscripts of memoirs on deportation, novels, accounts...

Review 1969

Herman Ermolaev. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia

Herman Ermolaev

This povest' deals with one of the blackest periods in Soviet history, the mid-1930’s. It belongs to the same type of literature as the Requiem by Anna Axmatova, Journey Into the Whirlwind by Evgenija Ginzburg...

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