When Miroslav Krleza traveled through Russia for six months between the end of 1924 and the beginning of 1925, the celebrated Croatian writer was there to figure out what it all meant. The sprawling country was still coming to terms with the events of the 1917 revolution and reeling from Lenin's death in January 1924. During this period of profound political and social transition, Krleza opened his senses to train stations, cities, and villages and collected wildly different Russian perspectives on their collective moment in history.Krleza's impressionistic reportage of mass demonstrations and jubilant Orthodox Easter celebrations is informed by his preoccupation with the political, social, and psychological complexities of his environment. The result is a masterfully crafted modernist travelogue that resonates today as much as it did when first published in 1926.

About the Author
Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. Since 1991 he has been living in Berlin, where he works as a translator of literature and the humanitiesfrom Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian. In 200507 he translated for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Firth is a member of professional associations in Germany (VdU) and Britain (Translators Association). His best-received translations of recent years include Robert Perisic's Our Man in Iraq. Best known as a poet, Tatjana Gromaca's novel Divine Children received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Literature and the Jutarnji list Award for Novel of the Year.

Reviews
"Krlezais a shrewd observer of man as social animal, and his wry, sardonic style fits cleanly into the Eastern European tradition of bureaucratic satire by the likes of Kafka, Karel Capek and Jaroslav Hasek " - -Publishers Weekly on On the Edge of Reason
"A great Croatian writer is seen at his most animated and unsparing in a venomous satire . . . on political aggrandizement and xenophobia. . . . Much worth reading as an introduction to an unjustly neglected European master." -- Kirkus Reviews on The Banquet in Blitva
"The Croatian Miroslav Krleza is among the most neglected of the world's writers." -- Antioch Review
"Miroslav Krleza's Journey to Russia is a book that ought to be some kind of immortal classic." Nell Zink, Author of Doxology and The Wallcreeper



Book Information
ISBN 9789533510293
Author Miroslav Krleza
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Sandorf Passage
Publisher Sandorf Passage
Weight(grams) 313g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm