Russian Literature Since the Revolution: Revised and Enlarged Edition

ISBN-13: 9780674782044 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 413 str.

Edward J. Brown

Opis

Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem1. Since 1917: A Brief HistorySoviet Literature
Persistence of the Past
Fellow Travelers
Proletarians
The Stalinists
Socialist Realism
The Thaw
The Sixties and Seventies2. Mayakovsky and the Left Front of ArtThe Suicide Note
Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Tragedy
The Cloud
"The Backbone Flute"
The Commune and the Left Front
The Bedbug and The Bath
Mayakovsky as a Monument
Poets of Different Camps3. Prophets of a Brave New WorldThe Machine and England
Olesha's Critique of the Reason
Envy and Rage4. The Intellectuals, ISerapions
Boris Pilnyak: Biology and History5. The Intellectuals, IIIsaac Babel: Horror in a Minor Key
Konstantin Fedin: The Confrontation with Europe
Leonov and Katayev
Conclusion6. The Proletarians, IThe Proletcult
The Blacksmith Poets
Yury Libedinsky: Communists as Human Beings
Tarasov-Rodionov: ,"Our Own Wives, Our Own Children"
Dmitry Furmanov: An Earnest Commissar
A. S. Serafimovich: A Popular Saga7. The Proletarians, IIFyodor Gladkov: A Literary Autodidact
Alexander Fadeyev: The Search for a New Leo Tolstoy
Mikhail Sholokhov: The Don Cossacks
A Scatter of Minor Deities
Conclusion8. The Critic Voronsky and the Pereval GroupCriticism and the Study of Literature
Voronsky
Pereval9. The Levers of Control under StalinResistance
The Purge
The Literary State10. Zoshchenko and the Art of Satire11. After Stalin: The First Two ThawsPomerantsev, Panova, and The Guests
Ilya Ehrenburg and Alexey Tolstoy
The Second Thaw
The Way of Pasternak12. Into the UndergroundThe Literary Parties
The Trouble with Gosizdat End of a Thaw
Buried Treasure: Platonov and Bulgakov
The Exodus into Samizdat and Tamizdat Sinyavsky13. Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of the CampsOne Day
The First Circle and The Cancer Ward
The Gulag
The Calf and the Oak: Dichtung and Wahrheit
Other Contributions to the Epic14. The Surface Channel, I: The Village15. The Surface Channel, II: Variety of Theme and StyleThe City: Intelligentsia, Women, Workers
The Backwoods: Ethical Problems
Other New Voices of the Sixties and Seventies
World War II
Published Poets
A Final Word on Socialist Realism16. Exiles, Early and LateThe Exile Experience
"Young Prose" and What Became of It
Religious Quest: Maximov and Ternovsky
Truth through Obscenity: Yuz Aleshkovsky
Transcendence and Tragedy: Erofeev's Trip
Poetry of the Daft: Sasha Sokolov
Perversion of Logic as Ideology: Alexander Zinoviev
A Gathering of WritersConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex