Necropolis
ISBN: 9780231546966
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Authors Russian -- 20th century -- Biography; Symbolism (Literary movement) -- Russia;

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir from Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia's literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.

Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939) was a major figure in twentieth-century Russian poetry as well as an accomplished critic and translator. Born into a Polish Catholic noble family in Moscow, he spent his later life in Berlin and Paris.

Sarah Vitali is a translator and PhD candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University.

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