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Cover. Izd. Interbuk 1990.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Title:
\n<\/em><\/strong>Moskva-Petushki [Moscow-Petushki]\n

Author:<\/em><\/strong> Venedikt Vasil\u2019evich Erofeev (1938-1990)<\/p>\n

Draft<\/em><\/strong>: <\/em>1969-1970<\/p>\n

First published in Russian:<\/em><\/strong> AMI<\/em>, 3, 1973: 95-165 [with a preface by Goldy Meir, abridged edition]\n

Description:
\n<\/em><\/strong>Erofeev’s novel-poem, Moscow-Petushki, <\/em>earned the writer a legendary reputation. The exact time of its composition remains unclear.\u00a0 Erofeev claimed in his autobiography that he finished the work between January and March 1970, which is questionable given that he himself wrote ‘Autumn 1969’ at then end of his text (cf. Lekmanov, Sverdlov 2018; Lekmanov, Sverdlov, Simanovskii 2019: 201-202). According to the literary critic Ol\u2019ga Sedakova<\/a>, the first chapters of Moscow-Petushki<\/em> were already prepared by October 1968 and Erofeev finished his novel around the end of the year (cf. ibid<\/em>.). However, given the materials we have, it seems likely that the text was written between 1969 and 1970.
\nThe novel-poem spread via the samizdat<\/em>, and was published for the first time in an abridged form, without the author\u2019s knowledge, in Jerusalem in 1973 in the literary almanac AMI<\/em>, with a run of 300 copies, achieving considerable success. In 1977 a second Russian edition was published in Paris, this time unabridged, by the YMCA Press, an emigration publishing house. In the USSR the novel was first officially published, in a considerably censored version, in 1988-1989 in the magazine \u201cTrezvost i kul\u2019tura\u201d (12, 1988; 1-3, 1989); an unabridged version was published in 1989, first in the literary almanac Vest\u2019<\/em> and then, in 1990, the year Erofeev died, in a single volume by two Muscovite publishing houses, Interbuk and Prometei (cf. Levin 1996; Zappi 2004a: 27). This last edition, edited by Vladimir Sergeevich Murav\u2019\u00ebv, is nowadays considered the editio princeps<\/em> since it is based on Erofeev’s original handwritten text, which was thought to be lost but was recovered by the editor (cf. Zappi 2004b: 155-156). <\/em>Before the text appeared in the USSR, several European publishers worked on its translation. In 1976 the Parisian Albin Michel published Moscou-sur-Vodka (Moscou-P\u00e9touchki)<\/em> translated by Antoine Pingaud and Annie Sabatier and with an afterword by Michel Heller; a year later, in 1977, Feltrinelli published Mosca sulla vodka<\/em> edited by Pietro Zveteremich and in 1978 the Piper of Munich included Die Reise nach Petuschki<\/em> edited by Natascha Spitz in its catalogue.
\nFollowing these first editions in Western languages, in the Eighties and Nineties English, Spanish, Czech and Polish versions of the text entered European and overseas bookshops.
\nIn Italy, after the first edition by Zveteremich in 1977 three other translations were published, all with different titles; the 2003 a version edited by Mario Caramitti for Fanucci, Tra Mosca e Petu\u0161ki<\/em> (based on the text contained in the two volume collection of Erofeev’s work published in 2001), a 2004 version by Gario Zappi for Feltrinelli (Mosca-Petu\u0161ki<\/em>), probably dating to the Nineties and based on Muravev\u2019s version of 1990, and in 2014, Mosca-Petusk\u00ec. Poema ferroviario<\/em>, edited by Paolo Nori for Quodlibet (cf. Remonato 2013).<\/p>\n

Giuseppina Larocca<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>[30th June 2021]\n

Translated by Diletta Bacci<\/p>\n

Editions in Russian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n