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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... described as a snake , especially given that he is also a spy , thus suggesting his role as the serpent , the agent of the Devil.9 One of the fundamental images in the novel is that of something enclosed or encased , like the ' numbers ...
... described in the same way as horses eat their food , and in ' Chesniki ( чесники ) ' two horses mate as do humans . Here too men and women belong to the same elemental world as do animals . But there is sexual ambiguity , too . Note the ...
... described as a ' toad ' lurking in someone's body , and cancer itself is ' the crab ' ( as it is in the zodiac ) . Vera is described as a gazelle , gentle and timid , and the promiscuous young Asia is like a restive horse . The young ...
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Preface | 1 |
Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mb | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Koнармия | 24 |
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