Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, 1918-1936

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937

Collector:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Title:

Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z029p475s

Dates:

1918-1936

Size:

1 box and 0.6 linear feet

Storage Note:

Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1

Language:

Russian English

Abstract: Consists of selected papers in Russian and English of Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts, articles, and letters.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists of selected papers, in Russian and English, of Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts for a short story, "The Dragon," two articles, "The Modern Russian Theater" and "The Future of the Theater," and four synopses or scenarios for film or theater treatments, "D-503" (a film scenario for Zamiatin's negative utopian novel We), "The Flea," "In Siberia," and "Master of Asia." Also present are nine letters (1932-1933) to George Reavey, the Irish poet and translator of Russian literature, and one letter (1934) to the theater director Theodore Komisarjevsky.

Collection Creator Biography:

Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937

Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin was a Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter.

Collection History

Acquisition:: Originally catalogued in C0140.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.

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