I know of his influence. But I haven't read much of his poetry. I have my own interests and within the confines of Russian literature I pretty much stop somewhere around Bulgakov and Pasternak. The entire oeuvre of the Khrushchev Thaw is something I know next to nothing about. I didn't even read any of his poetry before his death. It's a shame really because it does seem quite powerful and beautiful in both English and Russian. Though I still prefer Akhmatova of the Russian poets.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, influential Russian poet, has passed away
- 03/04/2017 05:30:50 PM
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He loomed large in the novel by Aksyonov I read relatively recently, A Mysterious Passion.
- 04/04/2017 03:47:45 AM
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Non-Russians don't necessarily know they should be interested.
- 04/04/2017 12:35:49 PM
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I must say, I don't think I'd heard of him before.
- 04/04/2017 10:31:26 PM
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You'd be able to name Pushkin too.
- 05/04/2017 01:11:14 PM
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Yes - wasn't counting him as 'modern'. Though I guess that depends where you draw the line.
- 05/04/2017 06:01:37 PM
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I honestly don't know enough about him.
- 04/04/2017 12:41:35 PM
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Here's an analysis of why he deserved the Nobel in Literature.
- 04/04/2017 05:54:28 PM
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He absolutely deserved it. Much more so than that Russian woman who got it recently.
- 05/04/2017 04:18:37 AM
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From my understanding, that might be because she writes non-fiction? And is Belarusian? *NM*
- 05/04/2017 06:02:59 PM
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