Author: Erenburg, Ilia
Title: Viza Vremeni (the Visa of the Time)
Description: Berlin: Petropolis, 1929. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (1929); 7 1/2 x 5 3/4; pp. [3], 6-370, [6]; beige wraps, printed in blue, ruled in black; partially unopened; small cuts to tail of spine and lower, front corner; a few small spots of foxing, mostly to first several leaves and spine; "Flegon Press" stamp to back wrap; very good condition.Ilia Erenburg (1891-1967) was a writer, journalist, and translator, who left Russia after the Revolution and lived and worked in various European cities well into the 1940s. He was a prominent figure among the Russian dissident intellectuals, including Pasternak, Esenin, and Maiakovskii. While traveling through Europe, Erenburg wrote a series of essays and sketches, which he published in his current book. Under various titles - "In Poland," "Berlin," "Letters from a Cafe," etc. - a first person narrator described the culture, the society, the moods and the expressions of the places and the people, with a detectable undertone of a feeling of dislocation and transition. Ill.: 0. 2.

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