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Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin was a Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter.
Consists of selected papers, in Russian and English, of Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts for a short story, "The Dragon," two articles, "The Modern Russian Theater" and "The Future of the Theater," and four synopses or scenarios for film or theater treatments, "D-503" (a film scenario for Zamiatin's negative utopian novel We), "The Flea," "In Siberia," and "Master of Asia." Also present are nine letters (1932-1933) to George Reavey, the Irish poet and translator of Russian literature, and one letter (1934) to the theater director Theodore Komisarjevsky.
Originally catalogued in C0140.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
Consists of "The Flea" [Blokha], "The Future of the Theater" [Budushchee teatra], and "The Modern Russian Theater," as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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synopsis of a film scenario for the novel We, TMsS (in English) with autograph corrections, 4 pp.
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short story, AMsS (in Russian), 3 pp.
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synopsis of a play in 4 acts, TMs (in English), 4 pp.
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article, AMsS (in Russian), 9 pp.
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synopsis of a novel, TMs (in English), 4 pp.
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scenario, "registered by the Société des Auteurs in Paris," TMsS (in English), with autograph corrections, 18 pp.
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article, TMsS (in English), with autograph corrections, 20 pp.
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Consists of letters to Theodore Komisarjevsky and George Reavey.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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Consists of 1 invitation to a "Soiré Littéraire du Eugène Zamiatine" at the Salle du Grand Orient de France.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
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