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Cover n. 100, 1976. Source: “Vtoraia Literatura”.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Title of the journal:
\n<\/em><\/strong>\u201cGrani\u201d<\/p>\n

Dates:<\/em><\/strong> 1946 \u2013 ongoing<\/p>\n

Places of publication:<\/em><\/strong> M\u00f6nchehof (1946, the first three issues), Limburg (1947-1951), Frankfurt am Mein (1951-1991); Moscow 1991-today<\/p>\n

Editors:<\/em><\/strong> Evgenii Romanov (pseudonym of Ostrovskii), Sergei Maksimov (pseudonym of Pashin), Boris Serafimov, Evgenii Romanov, Leonid Rzhevskii, Evgenii Romanov, N.V. Tarasova (1962-1982), Roman Redlikh, Nikolai Rutych, Georgii Vladimov, Ekaterina Samsonova-Breitbart, Tat’iana Zhilkina<\/p>\n

Description:
\n<\/em><\/strong>\u201cGrani\u201d was founded by Evgenii Romanov (pseudonym of Ostrovskii) in 1946 in Monchehof (near Kassel, Germany) in a political refugee camp (where the first three issues were printed). The journal was published by the Posev<\/a> publishing house on a quarterly basis, although from 1947 regular publication times were disrupted due to the dismantlement of the Monchehof camp. Over the years \u201cGrani\u201d had several subtitles: \u201cZhurnal literatury, iskusstva i obschestvennoi mysli\u201d (Literature, art, and social theory journal, 1946-1949), \u201cZhurnal literatury, iskusstva nauki i obshchestvennoi mysli\u201d (Literature, art, science and social thinking journal, 1949-1955),\u00a0 \u201cZhurnal literatury, iskusstva, nauki i obschestvenno-politicheskoi mysli\u201d (Literature, art, science, and social thinking, from n. 26 of 1955) and ultimately \u201cRusskii literaturnyi zhurnal\u201d (Russian literary journal, from 1991).
\nThe layout of \u201cGrani\u201d was organised in columns: Proza i stikhi <\/em>(Prose writing and poetry); Ocherki zarubezh\u2019ia (<\/em>Essays about emigration), Dokumental\u2019naia proza<\/em> (Documentary prose writing), Kritika i publitsistika<\/em> (Criticism and journalism), Knizhnoe obozrenie <\/em>(Book observatory).\u00a0 It published authors who were excluded from the official press such as Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandel\u2019shtam, Andrei Platanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Nikolai Zabolotskii, Boris Zaitsev, Evgenii Zamiatin, Aleksandr Solzhenytsin, Iurii Terapiano, Marina Tsvetaeva, Valerii Tarsis, Aleksei Remizov, Vladimir Voinovich, Aleksandr Galich, and Evgenii Evtushenko. Considerable space was dedicated to Iurii Dombrovskii, a writer of the Gulag experience, whose poems were published in \u201cGrani\u201d in 1972 and 1980; I. Shenfeld honoured him with the article Krugi zhizni i tvorchestva Iuriia Dombrovskogo <\/em>(Turns in the life and work of Iurii Dombrovskii, Shenfel\u2019d 1979) in issues 111-112 in 1979.
\nDuring the period of migration, about 3.000 copies of \u201cGrani\u201d were printed; in 1992 the print-run was about 10.000 copies, settling at around 3,000 copies in 1993. In 1996 Posev<\/a> ceased publishing the journal and editorship was transferred to Tat\u2019iana Zhilkina. In n.58 of 1965, \u201cGrani\u201d released three issues of the samizdat<\/em> journal \u201cSintaksis\u201d<\/a> edited by Aleksandr Ginzburg.
\nIn 1980 \u201cGrani\u201d organized a round-table conference in New York on the MetrOpol\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a>case, to which emigrant authors such as Iu. Aleshkovskii, D. Bobyshev, N. Koravin, and literary critic Ekaterina Breibart-Samsonova were invited. Except for Aleshkovskii, all were opposed to the release of the almanac, questioning its literary value and claiming that the project was almost exclusively motivated by political objectives (cf. Zalambani 2009).<\/p>\n

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

Translation by Diletta Bacci<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n