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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... Pontius Pilate . All of these narrative levels are united by the theme of moral cowardice , the necessity to be true to oneself . But more fundamentally , the novel is about the power of truth and the written word in an age of tyranny ...
... Pontius Pilate and then foretells the death of Berlioz , down to its finest details . Berlioz is indeed killed when he slips on some oil at the tram stop , falls under -82- The Twentieth - Century Russian Novel.
... Pontius Pilate , a novel he then burned in despair at its negative reception by the critics . This brief synopsis of the opening chapters of the novel serves to bring together the two main strands of the plot , the Biblical and the ...
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Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mы | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Kонармия | 24 |
Iurii Olesha 18991960 Envy 3аsucmь | 43 |
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