Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union.

Efim Etkind (1918-1999) was a Soviet philologist and literary historian who published more than 500 articles in academic journals. He was known for founding his own school of European poetry translation. He supported dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky, A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov in the 1960s and 1970s, was accused of anti-Soviet activity and eventually stripped of his academic degree and position. Unable to find other work, he was deported out of the USSR and emigrated to Paris, where he taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre until 1986.

In
Lieu of a Foreword
He
Outsmarted Us
Full
Repair!
The
Marquis de Lapunaise
The
Russian Intelligentsia: Two Generations
Looking
through the Walls
The
Double
Ferenc,
Count Batthyány
Ebensee
¿On the Sly¿
How
We Lived
¿The
Blond Hidden in a Bottle¿
Triumph
of Spirit
Up the Down Stairscase
It Turned Out Okay
About the Axe
Last Meeting
Pavel Antokolsky:
Generation of the Blind
Cousin
¿The Other¿
The Cowardice of a Brave
Man
Two Jewish Fates: Reading
the Diaries of Victor Klemperer
¿Youth in a Military
Blouse¿ of My Contemporary
Afterword: A Knight of Culture by David Bethea
List of Names