Valery Bryusov. Be Marble

The name of the great Russian poet Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 — 1924), the leader of symbolism and a reformer of literature, is known to every educated person, but his biography appears for the first time. The book contains an... insightful analysis of the life and creative collisions, blended into an engaging “life-creating” text. An inspired poet and demanding master, a wise teacher and eternal student, a mystic and rationalist, an imperialist and a Bolshevik, Bryusov-the man presents himself to the reader in all his “hundred-faced essence.” Literary works, memoirs, diaries, letters of Bryusov and his contemporaries, friends, and foes served the author material for a critical biography, in which a mosaic of facts forms an accurate portrait of a unique creative personality in the context of an era abundant with dramatic events.