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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... characters who remain profoundly affected by the events in the novel . Style and Imagery The narrator self - consciously utters words and phrases previously used by his characters : ' Oh gods - poison , I need poison ! ' ( p . 75 ) ...
... Characters are also played off against each other or , as in the case of the three writer figures already mentioned , are used as mirror images of each other . Ha - Notsri and Pilate are perhaps obvious examples ; they first appear as ...
... characters , and to place them in an existential situation where they have to face the prospect of death . Such a situation has an added interest in that it is set in an atheistic society , without the comfort of the Christian belief in ...
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Preface | 1 |
Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mb | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Koнармия | 24 |
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