Alexander Kuprin
This monograph in the Twayne series surveys the varied
life and work of Kuprin, who with Chekhov and Gorky was one of the best-known
Russian prose writers of the early 1900s. Beside his contemporaries he
has received scant critical attention, and within the limits imposed by
the series, this study with its bibliography aims to redress the balance.
Boston, G K Hall, USA 1978
Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Chronology
- Biography and Literary Beginnings
- Kiev Years
- Petersburg
- The Duel
- 1905 and After
- War and Revolution
- The Twilight Years
- Epilogue
- Notes and References
- Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Nicholas
Luker is a Yorkshireman by birth but spent part of his childhood
in South Africa. After teaching himself Russian, he read French and Russian
at Hertford College. Oxford, and in 1971 was awarded a PhD for a study
of the life and works of Alexander Grin. He has produced critical work
on Grin, compiled bibliographies on both Grin and Kuprin, and translated
Grin, Kuprin and Bunin.
Dr. Luker has travelled widely in the Soviet Union, North America and southern Africa, and in 1976 was Visiting Lecturer in Russian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
He is currently Lecturer in Russian at the University of Nottingham, England. He is married and has one son.