Gnedich

Maria Rybakova's “Gnedich” captures the reader's attention in its first stanzas with a striking allusion to Homeric Greece: "The rage that killed so many/the wretched rage of Achilles/who knew that he would perish/ that he would perish young.” This is a novel-in-verse about the first Russian translator of the Iliad, the romantic poet and librarian Nikolai Gnedich (1784-1833)