A Mind Purified by Suffering: Evgenia Ginzburg's Whirlwind Memoirs

"A Mind Purified by Suffering: " Evgenia Ginzburg's "Whirlwind" Memoirs is the first book on Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. It also provides a history of prison camp writings, her biography, and an interview with her son Vasily Aksenov.

Author: Olga M. Cooke
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9798887191706

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/28/2023 pg. 1

About the Author
Olga M. Cooke is Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. She is the editor of Andrey Bely's Petersburg: A Centennial Celebration (Academic Studies Press, 2017), and Gulag Studies. In addition to her publications on Ginzburg, Bely, and Gulag literature, she is completing a book on Bely's correspondence.