Gouzel Iakhina turns Eisenstein into a novel
The Russian-language novelist behind "Zuleikha" has written a fictionalized biography of the Soviet filmmaker, reviewed this week on France Culture.
France Culture's literary chronicle on Thursday singled out "Eisen", a novel by Gouzel Iakhina built around Sergei Eisenstein, the director of "Battleship Potemkin". According to the program, the book is a fictionalized biography that casts the filmmaker as the central figure of a dense, detailed fresco spanning the Soviet avant-gardes, state propaganda and the deadly uses of national legend.
France Culture described the novel as working like film editing itself, with Iakhina assembling her material the way a passionate editor would cut a sequence, moving between Eisenstein's art and the political machinery that both sustained and threatened him.
No publisher, translator or publication date for a French edition was given in the source. The summary does not specify whether "Eisen" has been or will be translated from Russian, so readers wanting the book in their library will need to watch for further details.
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