PEN World Voices Festival | What’s Old Is New: Gender and Power in Iliazd’s Neglected Rapture

Iliazd’s novel about a bandit and his lover offended both Russia’s revolutionaries and their opponents in the 1920s. Why read it now? With translator Thomas Kitson and Russian literature scholar Jennifer Wilson.

Co-presented with NYU’s Jordan Center.

NYU’s Jordan Center, 19 University Pl, New York, NY

Free, reservation required











When: Thu., May. 4, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Iliazd’s novel about a bandit and his lover offended both Russia’s revolutionaries and their opponents in the 1920s. Why read it now? With translator Thomas Kitson and Russian literature scholar Jennifer Wilson.

Co-presented with NYU’s Jordan Center.

NYU’s Jordan Center, 19 University Pl, New York, NY

Free, reservation required

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