Tyorkin in the Other World Gertrude Stein his passion being shared by

his passion being shared by Jeremy Robson

Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores

each seeking to feel at home—somewhere or with someone

‘Come the Thaw’

Tyorkin in the Other World Gertrude Stein his passion being shared byTyorkin in the Other World is a satirical sequel to Tvardovskys heroic war time epic Vasiliy Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier. Written in the early 1950s, when Tvardovsky was temporarily removed from the editorship of Novy Mir, the poem imagines that Private Tyorkin has died and gone to the Other World. The joke is that Hell turns out to be like the Soviet Union under Stalin, an oppressive, bureaucratic and culturally conservative society of Dead