About The Book
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him…
"An unsurpassed account of the historical background -- literary, cultural, and intellectual as well as political and social--against which Blake worked and to which he responded as engraver, painter, and poet." -- "English Language Notes." For many y…