Nicholas J. L. Luker

Alexander Kuprin

Alexander Kuprin
This monograph in the Twayne series surveys the varied life and work of Kuprin, who with Chekhov and Gorky was one of the best-known Russian prose writers of the early 1900s. Beside his contemporaries he has received scant critical attention, and within the limits imposed by the series, this study with its bibliography aims to redress the balance.
Boston, G K Hall, USA 1978

Contents

1. About the Author
2. Preface
3. Chronology
4. Biography and Literary Beginnings
5. Kiev Years
6. Petersburg
7. The Duel
8. 1905 and After
9. War and Revolution
10. The Twilight Years
11. Epilogue
12. Notes and References
13. Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Nicholas Luker is a Yorkshireman by birth but spent part of his childhood in South Africa. After teaching himself Russian, he read French and Russian at Hertford College. Oxford, and in 1971 was awarded a PhD for a study of the life and works of Alexander Grin. He has produced critical work on Grin, compiled bibliographies on both Grin and Kuprin, and translated Grin, Kuprin and Bunin.

Dr. Luker has travelled widely in the Soviet Union, North America and southern Africa, and in 1976 was Visiting Lecturer in Russian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

He is currently Lecturer in Russian at the University of Nottingham, England. He is married and has one son.