ZINAIDA NIKOLAEVNA GIPPIUS (1869-1941)

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ZINAIDA NIKOLAEVNA GIPPIUS (1869-1941)
Four autograph manuscripts in Russian, signed, n.d. [1926?], in all 43pp, 8° and 4°, comprising:
i) 'Lik chelovecheskii i lik vremen (The face of men and the face of time)', 14pp, a review of Maxim Vinaver's book Hedavnee (Recent Times) (some corners creased).
ii) 'Dva razgovora s poetami (Two conversations with poets): 1. Zadatki (Talents), 2. Kak pishetsya stikhi (How poetry is written)', 19pp, being reflections on poetic talent and potential and on how to write poetry (edges frayed, slightly thumb soiled, rust mark from paper clip).
iii) 'Probuzhdenie (Awakening)'; 'Pust' (Even though...)', two poems each of four lines, on blue notepaper (creased on fold, staple hole top left).
iv) 'Sinema (Cinema)', signed with her pseudonym 'Anton Krainii', 8pp, an article on the cinema (staple holes top left, edges creased).
(4)

Literature

First published in the Parisian magazine Zveno (Link), 21 February 1926, no.160.

Lot Essay

The wife of Merezhkovsky (see lot 80), Gippius was primarily a religious poet, although she also published novels and short stories, including a book of memoirs Zhivye litsa (Living faces).
Item (iii), the two poems, are the second and third of a series of three, 'V Druzhnosel'i' (Druzhnosel'e is near St. Petersburg where she lived 1917-1918).

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