Volume 41, Number 20 · December 1, 1994
Subversive Activities
By Joseph Frank
On Psychological Prose
by Lydia Ginzburg, translated and edited by Judson Rosengrant
Princeton University Press, 398 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Lydia Iakovlevna Ginzburg is not a name widely known outside Russia except to Slavists, but this excellent translation of perhaps her most important book, On Psychological Prose, should help to introduce her to a larger public. Until a few years before her death in 1990, when she was eighty, one could hardly say that her reputation was widespread even in Russia, except in scholarly circles. There she was highly respected as the author of a series of impressive studies of Russian writers, including Lermontov (1940) and Alexander Herzen (1957), as well as on such broader literary subjects as the Russian poetic tradition (On the Lyric, 1964).
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