The first scholarly study of the Russian poet, Boris Slutsky (1919-1986), substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literature. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical proof texts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.
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The first scholarly study of the Russian poet, Boris Slutsky (1919-1986), substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literature. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical proof texts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.
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