TRAVA ZABVENIYA. (Su Novi Mir n.3-1967. E.O.)

Un fascicolo (16x25,5 cm) di 288 pagine, in lingua russa, caratteri cirillici. L'opera di Kataev va da pag 3 a pag 129. Si tratta della prima comparsa dell'opera dello scrittore russo, che poi sarà stampata in volume due anni dopo (vedi scheda 025373). Brossura editoriale della rivista letteraria sovietica, n. 3 (marzo) 1967, dorso brunito, peraltro condizioni molto buone. ”Kataev himself developed a style he called "lyrical diary," mixing autobiography and fiction. In 1966 (corr. 1967) the literary magazine Novy Mir printed his The Grass of Oblivion (Trava zabveniya), which was published under the title The Holy Well (Svyatoy kolodets: Trava zabveniya) two years later. In it, Kataev weaves scenes from the lives of his family, friends, and lovers, events of Soviet history, and memories of his travels in America into a kind of stream-of-consciousness autobiography, considered by some critics to be the summary work of his career. Dodona Kiziria describes this work as "a tribute to the Russian writers who were forced to choose their path during the revolution and the civil war" (Wikipedia).