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A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury : the life and times of Samuel Koteliansky /

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, beca...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diment, Galya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations following pages 11 and 186
  • Introduction: Right Place, Right Time
  • Part 1. From ShmiliK To Kot: 1880-1930
  • 1. Shmilik
  • 2. "Kot": The Jew in London
  • 3. Year 1915: Kot as Kangaroo
  • 4. Revolutions and Catastrophes
  • 5. H.G. Wells in Russia and the Death of Mansfield
  • 6. Translating for the Hogarth Press
  • 7. The Adelphi Affair and the Café Royal
  • 8. Rozanov and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The End of an Era
  • Part 2. After Lawrence: 1931-1955
  • 9. Mournings: Old Enemies and New Friends
  • 10. Cresset Press: Losing Equilibrium
  • 11. May Sarton, Ottoline's Death, and Gertler's Suicide
  • 12. World War II and Its Aftermath
  • 13. Full Circle
  • Post Mortem
  • Appendices
  • A. S.S. Koteliansky, 1880-1955: A Chronology
  • B. Who's Who in Koteliansky's Life in England
  • c. Lady Glenavy: More Memories of Kot
  • D. Koteliansky and Stephen Spender
  • E. Two Letters from Frieda Lawrence to Koteliansky
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.