Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Thirst for Music
by V. Domontovych
Description
A secret agent of Soviet intelligence and a bohemian modernist, a Berlin-based professor and theologian, a man in a German officer’s uniform, and a recluse archeologist studying Trypillian culture — should someone write a fictionalised biography of Viktor Petrov, such a book would be no less than a page-turning spy novel. But while the government archives refuse to provide information about this extraordinary person, a new edition of Domontovych’s works opens up his world for readers. The book reflects describes the dramatic contrast of the time he lived in, raging emotions and lurking passions. Vincent van Gogh and Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke and Vaclav Rzhevsky come to life in this novel. V. Domontovych's literary texts are vivid examples of twentieth-century intellectual prose that fascinate readers today.
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Author Biography
Viktor Petrov (1894–1964, pen names V. Domontovych and Viktor Ber) was a Ukrainian writer, philosopher, social anthropologist, literary critic, archeologist, historian, and cultural scientist, who held a PhD in history and philology. Together with Valerian Pidmohylny, Petrov was the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel as a genre, as well as of the novelised biography. After completing his studies in the department of history and philology at Kyiv University, he joined the Ethnographic Commission of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences as its leader. During this period, he became acquainted with the most well-known Ukrainian modernist poets, the Neoclassicists, and debuted as an author in 1928 with the novel The Girl with the Teddy Bear. During WWII he lived in Kharkiv, then moved to Germany. There he became one of the founders of the organisation of Ukrainian writers in German emigration, the Ukrainian Art Movement, and taught ethnography in the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Petrov died in 1969 and was buried in the military section of the capital’s cemetery with general’s honors. Up until Ukraine’s independence, Petrov’s name remained virtually unresearched by Ukrainian literary scholars and unknown to readers.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Komora Publishing House
- Publication Date 2017
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177286218
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages448
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleСпрага музики
- Original Language AuthorsВ. Домонтович
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