V sporakh o teatrie : sbornik statei / IU. Aikhenval'd, Sergieia Glagolia, Vl. I. Nemirovicha-Danchenko,.,. [V sporach o teatre] by Aikhenval'd, IUlii Isaevich [1872-1928] ; et al - (1913)

Some page browning. Good. Russian Literary History Kn-vo pisatelei v Moskvie Moskva (1913) binder's cloth 23x15cm, 198 pages., Title pencilled in Roman script transliteration on title-page. Binder's cloth, with original front cover wrapper bound-in. Cover date given as 1914. Text entirely in Russian. Full title reads: "V sporakh o teatrie : sbornik statei / IU. Aikhenval'd, Sergieia Glagolia, Vl. I. Nemirovicha-Danchenko, F. Kommissarzhevskago, V. Sakhnovskago, M. Bonch-Tomashevskago, A.I. IUzhina,.,.." [ "Aikhenval'd..,. Critic. A proponent of 'art for art's sake', he wrote analytic reviews for the paper 'Russian Thought' (Russkaia mysl). His article 'Rejecting the Theatre' (1912) , which accused the theatre of presenting only a 'falsification of life'provoked an energetic response from such thinkers as Vladimir Nemirovicha- Danchenko and Nikolai Evreinov. Prince Dmitrii Mirskii described Aikhenval'd's critical style as 'a dense layer of treacle beneath which it is impossible to distinguish between Turgenev and the vulgarest of lyrical journalists'. Aikhenval'd emigrated in 1922" - Senelick in "Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre" ].