The Trauma of Emigration: The Case of Vladislav Khodasevich (Travma Emigratsii)

The book 'The Trauma of Emigration: The Case of Vladislav Khodasevich' combines philological and psychological optics. Turning to the poet's letters and dreams, his serious and humorous poems, criticism and prose, Pavel Uspensky considers the emigrant period of Khodasevich's life and work as an ongoing trauma that both tormented the poet and defined the masterpieces he created. The book is published when Russia is again divided between those who left and those who remained, and when the phenomenon of emigration and its psychological characteristics have acquired almost the same severity as a hundred years ago.

About the author:
Pavel Uspensky is a philologist and literary historian, the author of books on the poetic language of Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak (in collaboration), as well as works on the history and poetics of Russian literature of the 19th-20th centuries. The researcher has been studying Khodasevich since 2010; wrote a series of articles about him and a monograph on his early work.