Prochten'e Tvorcheskogo Slova [Signed/inscribed posthumously by author's wife - poet Agniia Rzhevskaia]

New York: New York University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 9"; pp. [9], 10-275, [1]; original green boards; printed DJ; near fine with minor wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Jacket fair with small chips and some loss of paper to spine edges. Signed and inscribed by Agniia Rzhevskaia to Prof. Anatoly Lieberman. Leonid Rzhevskii was a Russian author, critic, and professor. In 1941 he was captured by the Nazis and held as prisoner of war. Later, he immigrated - first to Germany and then to the US, where he worked at Oklahoma and New York Universities. Subtitled "Literaturovedcheskie Problemy I Analizy," his current book contains a collection of his novels, essays, articles, and short stories - previously published in various journals and other publications and dedicated to analyzing the styles and works of five major Russian writers - Babel, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov, and Akhmadulina.