The Twentieth-century Russian Novel: An IntroductionBerg, 1996 - 179 pagina's Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this important new guide for students. Works include: - "We" by Evgenii Zamiatin - "Red Cavalry" by Isaak Babel - "Envy" by Iurii Olesha - "How the Steel Was Tempered" by Nikolai Ostrovskii - "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak - "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - "Pushkin House" by Andrei Bitov In each chapter, David Gillespie examines one novel in detail and explores the career of the author and the critical reception of the work. Throughout, considerable reference is made to recently published scholarship and archival materials to provide students and scholars of Russian and Comparative Literature with a guide to these important Russian authors and their place in the world of literature. The book also includes an extensive bibliography of secondary literature and contains textual references in both the original Russian and in English translation. |
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... Andrei Babichev , a ' new Soviet man ' , a former Civil War commissar and now famous as a manufacturer of sausages . Kavalerov's observation of Andrei washing at the very beginning of the novel reflects his fascination with the older ...
... Andrei for his hospitality towards Kavalerov as giving in to sheer human compassion , thereby revealing his own jealousy . ( Makarov saved Andrei's life during the Civil War , and since then they have been together like father and son ...
... Andrei taking his toilet in Part One and likens him to all sorts of animals : he is like a flamingo , his ' magnificent ' groin is like that of a male antelope . Elsewhere similes are similarly outlandish : Kavalerov sees Andrei as a ...
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Preface | 1 |
Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mb | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Koнармия | 24 |
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