World Literature Today, January 1st, 1998
In his sixtieth year Andrei Bitov has gathered a number of poems, written between 1971 and 1982, in a slender volume titled "On Thursday After the Rain." The author, one of Russia's most eminent prosaists, takes his reader a little by surprise with this generic sidestep. Why poetry? As if second-guessing the public, Bitov has penned a rather prolonged foreword, a rambling explanation of where, when, and why he ever turned from paragraphs to stanzas. Since Bitov is best known for his intertextually stuffed or self-consciously noisy novel Pushkinskii dom (1978; Eng. Pushkin House), one wonders...
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