не смерть по канону голливудскому, это настоящая русская смерть. One of the earliest works in Russian literature to discuss lesbianism: It follows a welltrod, path for one of its lovers but manages to feel more defiant than hopeless.
Don't recommend it if you're tired of spoiler alert
dead lesbians, but her Tragic Menagerie, another unicorn of earlyth century Russian literature, is a favorite.
I hope more of her work is translated in future,
Note: The edition above is in Russian I mistakenly ordered a copy and was, . . surprised. I was finally able to track down the only English translation in as anthology The Silver Age of Russian Literature.
Very bold for its time, Lydia ZinovievaAnnibalwas a Russian prose writer and dramatist, ZinovievaAnnibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov, Her short novel ThirtyThree Abominations was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
Certainly not a masterpiece. But she wrote it with a fierceness that rivals that of her contemporaries, those fiery young men and women who made up what today is called "the Russian Silver Age".
I am indeed stunned this early sapphic tale hasn't been discovered in recent years by lgbt groups, what with Russia becoming a leading force in worldwide homophobia.
It's worth taking the short time to read it and marvel at the groundbreaking unapologetic tone in those erotically charged diary entries.
Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva Annibal Russian: Лидия Дмитриевна Зиновьева Аннибалwas a Russian prose writer and dramatist, Zinovieva Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, She hosted a literary salon, The Tower,
with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov, Her short novel Tridsat tri uroda Thirty Three Abominations was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
from Wikipedia Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva Annibal Russian: Лидия Дмитриевна Зиновьева Аннибалwas a Russian prose writer and dramatist, Zinovieva Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov, Her short novel Tridsat' tri uroda Thirty Three Abominations was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
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