Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch An appreciation of his life and works Edited by William George Jordan and Richardson Wright
Publisher: The Authors Club
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [4], 126, [6] (first 4 and last 5 blank). Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 81, 93 and 103. Plates facing p. 27 and 49. The colophon states: "This book was designed by William Aspinwall Bradley for the Yale University Press, and executed under his supervision by Norman T.A. Munder and Company, Baltimore.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A hoax by the ‘editors’ Jordan (1864-1928) and Wright (1887-1961), claiming to be the translation of poems by an underappreciated Russian poet. The work was taken seriously immediately after its publication in 1918, until a Slavicist noticed the atypical use of the double "r.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content: The personal side of Larrovitch / William George Jordan; Larrovitch's place in literature / M'Cready Sykes; Some translations from Larrovitch / Richardson Wright; Three incidental poems by Larrovitch / George Sidney Hellman; Five Larrovitch letters / Thomas Walsh; The true and false about Larrovitch / Richardson Wright; Talks with Larrovitch / Titus Munson Coan; Toward a Larrovitch foundation / James Howard Bridge; Bibliography of Larrovitch / Arthur Colton.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_733947" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>