[Edited by] Ivaska, Iu. P. - Opyty. Literaturny Zhurnal. Vol. VIII [Experiments. Literary Journal. Vol. VIII]

New York: Experiments, 1957. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 10; pp. 144; beige and red wraps designed by A. N. Pregel; thin band of discoloration to top margin of front wrap; 1" damage to head of spine from creature nibbles, elsewhere minor damage; internally clean; most pages unopened; good to very good condition. Volume 8 (of a total of 9 issues) of this important emigre journal which contained works by many notable figures including first printings of various works of Vladimir Nabokov, whose original essay "Zametki Perevodchika II" (Notes of a Translator II) can be found in the current volume. The first installment of it was published earlier in the same year in another journal - "Novy Zhurnal." Iurii Pavlovich Ivask (1907-1986), having moved with his family from Moscow to Estonia after the Revolution, began his literary career as a member of the "Guild of Poets" in Tallinn. He was displaced to Germany during World War II and eventually, in 1949, made his way to the US where he would teach Russian literature at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt Univercity, Amherst, and others. He was also a prolific poet and essayist. Apart from Nabokov's essay, the present issue included works by Marina Tsvetaeva, Petr Ershov, and Georgi Ivanov. Interestingly enough, it also featured a chapter from a, then, unpublished novel by Aleksei Remizov - the Russian modernist author who, once respected, would be abhorred by his fellow emigre writers for his interest in returning to the Soviet Union after World War II and about whom Nabokov was known to say that the only good thing about Remizov was that he really did live in the world of literature. Ill.: 0. 2.

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