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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... Bolshevik left behind by the retreating Red Guards to work with the local population as the Germans advance . Zhukhrai's agitation amongst the workers has its effects in the form of discontent when the landowners return , partisan ...
... Bolshevik offers resistance to the last . On the other hand , the morality of the Reds is beyond question : three Latvians attempting to rape the wife of a Polish officer are shot by their own officer . Women of the future , fighting ...
... Bolshevik who regards Marxism as a ' historical inevitability ' . As they travel through Russia they come across evidence of the excesses of the dreaded commissar Strel'nikov in the form of burned - out villages . We later learn that ...
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Preface | 1 |
Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mb | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Koнармия | 24 |
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