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Apr 3, 2005 · Stories about Shostakovich and his intimates or rivals -- his lover Elena Konstantinovskaya; her husband, Roman Karmen; the poet Anna Akhmatova -- recur often enough to make the collection a...
56911959. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3572.O395 E97 2005. Europe Central (2005) is a novel by William T. Vollmann that won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]
The stories bleed together, with character parallels and conceptual continuations. Often at the center of the fugue is Soviet ‘formalist’ composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who aches as part of a Vollmann-invented love triangle with shape-shifting translator Elena Konstantinovskaya and Roman Karmen …
Jul 7, 2016 · (Shostakovich’s horror at seeing his love letters to Konstantinovskaya surfacing in a Sotheby’s sale decades after his death can well be imagined.) And no mention is made of Galina Ustvolskaya, Shostakovich’s one-time composition student and distinguished composer in her own right, to whom he allegedly proposed marriage twice (rejected ...
EUROPE CENTRAL. William T. Vollmann, . . Viking, $39.95 (832pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03392-8. In the small set of America's best contemporary novelists, Vollmann is the perpetual comet. Every two years ...
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Elena Konstantinovskaya. Elena is a beautiful, intelligent, captivating woman who is “an object of obsessive desire” for many men in Europe Central.
