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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... thinks nothing of killing an enemy , but he cannot bring himself to love a woman . He is steadily losing all the vestiges of humanity that he thinks weaken him , such as smoking , and vows also to refrain from swearing . He later ...
... think that at this moment in that house there may be the future author of a Don Quixote , or a Faust or who knows - Dead Souls ? ' ' Frightening thought , ' said Behemoth . ' Yes , ' Koroviev went on , ' think what astonishing growths ...
... thinks not , and Matthew's writings are unreliable . Bulgakov's version of the confrontation of Christ and Pilate is markedly different from that in the Bible , as is his characterization of Christ , Matthew and Judas , and the events ...
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Preface | 1 |
Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mb | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Koнармия | 24 |
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