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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... Theme and Characterization Although Red Cavalry is composed of thirty - six short stories , the work is unified by its consistency of theme , imagery , characters and religious motifs . Each of the stories is entirely self - contained ...
... theme is arguably the most important in the novel , as it links the novel's moral aspect with its central ... theme of artistic creativity . This theme also includes the act of creativity itself , and the truth of the written word ...
... Theme It may be apparent by now that there is a strong element of parody in the novel . Leva's duel with Mitishat'ev is a parody of Pushkin's fatal duel ( as well as Lermontov's ) . Leva sits on the lion statue opposite the Bronze ...
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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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