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Kamni i Korni [Rocks and roots].

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First edition in book form, a strange modernist travelogue in which Pilniak critically reworks his earlier Korni iaponskago solntsa (Roots of the Japanese Sun, 1927).

The text consists of lengthy citations from the original work, commentary by R. Kim from Pilniak’s Collected Works, and further commentary by Pilniak on both the original text and Kim’s critical apparatus. Kamni i korni was first serialised in Novyi Mir in 1933, and here appears with further editorial changes. The multiple levels of interpretation and the renegotiation of earlier texts bear witness to an artist in a constant and shifting battle with the favour or disfavour of the State.

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