‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West
(2016)
Journal Article
Harrington, A. (2016). ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West. Celebrity Studies, 7(4), 509-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2016.1233769
Russian literary celebrity of the Soviet era is conditioned by specific factors that challenge key assumptions in scholarship focused on western culture. These factors (which include stringent censorship, doctrinaire cultural policy, and samizdat) an... Read More about ‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West.