YEVGUENY YEVTUSHENKO

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. Zima Junction vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in Waking, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and Birthday, on a mothers concern for her son, while Encounter depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. The Companion and Party Card show war from a childs eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenkos famous poem, Babiy Yar, is an angry expose of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. Zima Junction vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in Waking, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and Birthday, on a mothers concern for her son, while Encounter depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. The Companion and Party Card show war from a childs eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenkos famous poem, Babiy Yar, is an angry expose of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.

El más conocido poeta social de los años sesenta en Europa, afronta la escritura de un poema íntimo escrito a una mujer que conoció en Colombia en 1968. El recuerdo de Dora, con la que se reencontró en Nueva York años despues gracias a Salvador Dali, se convierte en el paisaje de la epoca mas intensa en la vida del autor.

YEVGENY Yevtushenko (Zima, Irkutsk, 1933), varias veces nominado al Premio Nobel de Literatura, es el verdadero maestro de la escuela poetica posestalinista. Brillante y polemico portavoz de la Rusia del deshielo, ha realizado numerosos viajes al extranjero, cosechando clamorosos exitos. Su poesia intenta tocar los puntos neuralgicos y dolorosos de la historia de su pais, desde el resurgir del antisemitismo (Babi yar, 1961) hasta la omnipotencia de los burocratas. Otro tema de su lirica es el amor: un sentimiento siempre incierto y cambiante, en el que actitudes de desafio se alternan con momentos de timidez y soledad. El mismo ha dicho que es un poeta para los que no son poetas, y si no pudo cambiar Rusia como habia soñado, si ayudo de manera considerable a descongelar el hielo de su epoca.