Okudzhava, Bulat Shalvovich

Bud' zdorov, shkoliar: stikhi (opublikovannye i nepublikovannye) [Be Well, Schoolboy: Poems (Published and Unpublished)]

Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1966. Item #1494

XIV, 204, [3] p. : port. ; 18.8 x 13 cm. Second edition. Original publisher’s wrappers. Minor edge wear, faint toning and spotting to wrappers. Stamp to title page from émigré library holdings.

This emigre publication of Bulat Okudzhava’s poetry, released in 1966 by the Frankfurt-based Posev publishing house, a key outlet for dissident voices and uncensored Soviet literature in exile. This edition gathers poems—both officially published and unpublished at the time—offering émigré readers a fuller, uncensored view of Okudzhava’s lyrical world. A World War II veteran, party member, and Moscow intellectual, Okudzhava became one of the central figures in the Soviet “bard” movement, pioneering the genre of avtorskaia pesnia with its introspective, guitar-accompanied verse. His gentle yet subversive tone gave voice to a generation shaped by both ideological loyalty and disillusionment.

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