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EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

by e e cummings

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Publisher Comments:

Unavailable for more than fifty years, EIMI finally returns. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness....Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!"

A stylistic tour de force, EIMI is a mélange of styles and tones, the prose containing many abbreviations, grammatical and syntactical shifts, typographical devices, compounds, and word coinages. This is Cummings's invigorating and unique voice at its finest, and EIMI is without question one of his most substantial accomplishments.

Synopsis:

A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.

About the Author

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels, his most recent being The Stone That the Builder Refused. He teaches at Goucher College and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780871406521
Author:
cummings, e e
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Preface by:
Bell, Madison Smartt
Preface:
Bell, Madison Smartt
Introduction:
Friedman, Norman
Author:
Friedman, Norman
Author:
Cummings, E. E.
Author:
Bell, Madison Smartt
Afterword by:
Friedman, Norman
Afterword:
Friedman, Norman
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Travel
Subject:
Soviet Union
Subject:
Soviet Union Description and travel.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Number:
4
Edition Description:
Reissue
Publication Date:
20071231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
496
Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 in 0.88 lb

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