Gma - Rysk litteraturhistoria

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated,…

D-503, a mathematician in the one thousandth year of the One State and the chief architect of the Integral, threatens national security when he falls in love with the beautiful I-330 and rediscovers the meaning of passion and the soul, in a new tran…

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known s…

For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps…

* A comprehensive history of Russian literature and culture. * Provides a broad overview but also hones in on key events, people and texts to provide depth and sustained analysis. * Places individual works, lives and events in their historical conte…

From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work…

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional…

Per-Arne Bodin följer upp succén med Ryssland - idéer och identiteter med sin nya bok Kyssen i Ryssland. Han skriver om skenavrättningen av Dostojevskij och hur terrorismen användes som vapen mot de sista tsarerna. Men läsaren möter även Pasternaks…

One of "The Economist"'s 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY MELANCHOLICALLY BEAUTIFULLY --TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal "n+1") will ever forget it. "B…

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered." Mo…

This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career--from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial…

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, spec…

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, spec…

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of…

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chek…

This anthology provides a broad selection of writing from Nikolai Karamzin and the beginnings of modern Russian prose to Ivan Bunin and the years just before the Revolution. Mr. Proffer has selected what is generally regarded as the best of each aut…

"Själens ingenjörer" var Stalins benämning på den sovjetiska författarkåren, som på 1930­-talet fick i uppdrag att ideologiskt bereda marken för Sovjetunionens omvandling till industriland. Den holländske journalisten Frank Wester­man, med ett förfl…

'It is best to do nothing The best thing is conscious inertia So long live the underground ' Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking "Notes from Underground" t…

A new translation of the first of Chekhov's four great plays. The Seagull is Chekhov's classic drama of spurned love, restlessness, frustration, and self-deception.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries…

The CliffsNotes study guide on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries…

"I Am a Chechen!" offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tell…

Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays

Drawing on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory to reinterpret key writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Myroslav Shkandrij shows how the need to legitimize expansion gave rise to ideas of Russian political and cultural hegemony a…

The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and other plays of Anton Chekhov have been acclaimed by audiences and readers since they first began appearing in the late nineteenth century. In this eloquent and insightful book, an emin…

This text presents an analysis of the construction of masculinity in early Soviet culture that finds in the novels of Babel and others, an utopian society composed exclusively of men. The work draws on the theories and writings of Levi-Strauss, Gira…

In "Men without Women", Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analysing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, Borenstein provi…

This panoramic novel hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through…

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman o…

Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem1. Since 1917: A Brief HistorySoviet LiteraturePersistence of the PastFellow TravelersProletariansThe StalinistsSocialist RealismThe ThawThe Sixties and Seventies2. Mayakovsky and the Left Front of A…

This comprehensive study of the Russian literary travelogue, a genre that blossomed in the early 19th century, sheds new light on Russian literature and culture of the period. In the decades before and during the rise of the Russian novel, a new for…

Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have bowled over the fantasy world. "The Stranger" will appeal to a broad coalition of delighted readers. Strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Fantasy,…

A major Russian poet of the mid-20th century, first translation."Professor Smith has given us a text that should be made mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the Soviet Union... the purest example of the sensibility of a Soviet intel…

More than any other art form, literature defined Eastern Europe as a cultural and political entity in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often persecuted by the state, East European writers formed what was frequently recognized to be…

"Bergson and Russian Modernism" provides a portrait of the early twentieth-century intersection of literature, philosophy, and art, showing how the Russian reception of Bergsonian philosophy helped to define Russian Modernism. By drawing on various…

Andrei Bely's masterpiece, "Petersburg" is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. St Petersburg,…

In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, te…

During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilisation that seemed to ignore the histories of Slavs and African Americans. In response, generations of Russian and…

During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilisation that seemed to ignore the histories of Slavs and African Americans. In response, generations of Russian and…

On July 30, 1925, Vera Muromtseva-Bunina, the wife of the Russian writer Ivan Bunin (who was soon to win the Nobel Prize for Literature), wrote in her diary: "Ian [her name for her husband] has torn up and burned all his diary manuscripts. I am very…

The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, c…

The "Queen of Spades and Other Stories" is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduct…

Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lyin…