Dialogues with Yevgeny Yevtushenko

18 hrs. 38 min.

Language Russian

Author Solomon Volkov

Narrator Vladimir Levasheov

Description

The audiobook includes seven days of filming and 50 hours of dialogue between two famous figures. In “Dialogues with Yevgeny Yevtushenko,” the writer Solomon Volkov and the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko hold a conversation that took place in 2012 and was shortened into a film shown in 2013 on Channel One, under the direction of Anna Nelson. Volkov’s dialogue-format works have long been well known; over the years, his interlocutors have included such personalities as Joseph Brodsky, George Balanchine, Vladimir Spivakov, and many others. In this audiobook, Yevtushenko—known for his penetrating poems and his conviction that “the poet in Russia is more than a poet”—shares with Volkov reflections on time, his creativity, well-known contemporaries, and personal aspects of his life.