Art as the Cognition of Life: Selected Writings 1911-1936

First English translation of 26 articles by the major Bolshevik literary critic and member of the Left Opposition. Includes Art as the Cognition of Life, and the contemporary World as well as writings on Tolstoy Gorky, Pilniak, Esenin, Esenin, Larisa Reisner and Freud, newspaper articles, a satire, two letters addressed to his Stalinist persecutors, and an appendix of six documents crucial to an understanding of the events of the 1920s. Glossary, biographical notes, name, subject and works indexes.