Gore ot Uma[Woe from Wit]
AES Group : Tatiana Arzamosova, Lev Evzovich, and Evgeny Svyatsky
Moscow, Russia: Ilbi. 1995
Gore ot Uma (which translates into Woe from Wit) consists of two volumes bound back-to-back and housed in a cardboard slipccase. The first volume is a reprint of A. Griboedov's 1823 comedy Wit Works Woe, a "classical Russian Comedy written in verse at the beginning of the nineteenth century by a contemporary of Pushkin's, a Russian ambassador in Persia. ...This play is one of those frequently interpreted on the Russian and Soviet stage. ...In the Twentieth Century the play was staged by Stanislavsky in the Russian Art Nouveau style, by Meyerhold in the style of the revolutionary avant-garde, and by a few directors in the Stalin era and in the 'thaw' of the sixties and after." The text is entirely in Russian.
The second volume, The Golden Notebook, is full of color sketches, photographs, pull-out mini posters, notes, and selected English translations of the original play. "It is a graphic interpretation of the political and cultural archetypes of Russian life up to the postmodern outlook of the eighties ...It might be called an intellectual game with the play's contents and the cultural layers of its subsequent treatments."
Category: Small Book
$100.00
