Kontrolʹnye tsifry : stikhi (Control Figures : poems)

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Near Fine condition; repaired minor missing pieces of the cover corners and spine ends, internally perfect. Current, the third collection of poems (of six published) includes 32 verses devided into three sections. The poetry ..

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Near Fine condition; repaired minor missing pieces of the cover corners and spine ends, internally perfect.

 

Current, the third collection of poems (of six published) includes 32 verses devided into three sections. The poetry is imbued with pathos of the socialist construction, hense the book title “control figures”, which means control figures for the national economy in USSR created by Gosplan. Sketches of urban ladscapes and worker’s daily life under socialism alternate with subjects of the Civil War. While glorifying socialism, however the author was critized for the „excessive topicality and devotion to the facts, lacking of artistic fantasy and literary intuition.“ (Wikipedia) Book’s constructivist cover design by unattributed artist.

 

Gennadi Fish (1903-1971) was Russian socialist-realist writer. Started as a poet in 1922, after 1932 turned to publicist prose. Fish was also the author of plays and screenplays.

Title Kontrolʹnye tsifry : stikhi (Control Figures : poems)
Author Gennadi Fish
Publisher LAPP Leningradskaya Assotsiatsia Proletarskikh Pisatelei (Leningrad Association of Proletarian Writers) - Priboi, Leningrad
Published year 1929
Country Russia
Edition 1st edition
Binding Soft cover
Octavo 13 x 18 cm.
Weight 0.070 kg.
No. of pages Wrappers, 61, [3] pp.
Print run 2000 copies
Language Russian