Zajcev, Boris K. Russisches

Zajcev, Boris K. Russian manuscript. Literary text written down in his own hand, with corrections and signed. The last chapters of the autobiographical text "Drevo zhizni" (The Tree of Life). Pre-1953. 195 4 leaves, 10 double leaves; 1 leaf, 11 double leaves, 1 leaf; 1 leaf, 17 double leaves; all variously numbered in the author's own hand (pp. 39-63 and 64-97; pp. 65-88). Ink on a total of 83 loose sheets of paper. Each 30 x 20 cm. B. Zajcev (1881-1972) is considered an important young representative of the "Silver Age" in Russian literature; he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. - The following chapters are available: Berlin (Berlin); Proshino (Proshino); Letopis' zemlyanogo vala (Chronicle of the Zemlyanoy Val). - The manuscript comes from the editorial archive of the New York journal of Russian emigrants "Novyj zhurnal" (New Review). Here presented in the multiple inscribed envelope of the editorial office.