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 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 in Griboedov House ( both events begin at midnight ) , for these too are described as ' hell ' by the author . 16 Woland's powers and the behaviour of his entourage are the focus of the magical aspect of the novel . Towards ...
... 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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Evgenii Zamiatin 18841937 We Mы | 7 |
Isaak Babel 18941940 Red Cavalry Kонармия | 24 |
Iurii Olesha 18991960 Envy 3аsucmь | 43 |
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