Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is not only the author of the well-known children’s poems and fairy tales, but also an outstanding literary scholar, critic, translator, and an active participant and organizer of Russia’s literary life for seven decades. Despite the abundance of books and publications dedicated to him, his many-sided nature remains, to a large extent, a mystery for researchers. Writer and journalist Irina Lukyanova, based on numerous sources, created a new biography of the writer—unmatched in its completeness—fitting his life into the broad panorama of Russian history and literature of the 20th century. In the author’s presentation, Chukovsky appears not only as a figure of a bygone era, but also as our conversation partner, answering pressing questions of the present.
Contents:
Part 1. The Provincial
Part 2. The Educator
Part 3. Suspicious
Part 4. The Patriarch
Part 4.1. Afterword