The last of the Siberian Mohicans

2022-01-12T15:10:23.855Z

CRITICAL - The story of the friendship between an officer of the Tsar and a man of the woods, Dersu Ouzala, by Vladimir Arseniev, inspired a masterpiece in Kurosawa. This novel censored by the Soviets reappears in its entirety.

It is the masterpiece of Russian

nature writing

, masterfully brought to the screen by Akira Kurosawa.

The Last of the Mohicans

Siberian version.

Dersou Ouzala

marked a generation of spectators and moved thousands of readers. Until then, however, we had only had a truncated version of it, redacted by passages that were contrary to the Soviet ideal. Censorship that nobody was aware of in the West except Yves Gauthier. A century after the first publication in Bolshevik Russia, this eminent Russian-speaker has just resuscitated the full text of

Dersou Ouzala

. A colossal amount of research which man is accustomed to. It was he who had notably gathered and then translated the chronicles forming the bestseller

Hermits in the taiga

(Babel).

For

Dersou Ouzala

, it was necessary to get his hands on the original manuscript, somewhere in Vladivostok.

Yves Gauthier also used the field notebooks of the author, Vladimir Arseniev.

The latter, an officer of the Tsar, forges a deep friendship with a man ...

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