The Novel in Russia: From Pushkin to Pasternak

ISBN-13: 9780367550813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Henry Gifford

Opis

The Novel in Russia examines the Russian sensibility as it is revealed in prose fiction, the dominant mode of Russian literature.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part One: The Transition from Poetry; 1: Pushkin: the novel in verse and prose; 2: Lermontov: A Hero of Our Own Time; 3: Gogol's Dead Souls; Part Two: Prose Paramount; A note on the critics; 4: Goncharov and the myth of Oblomov; 5: Turgenev in Fathers and Children; 6: Leskov and the righteous man; 7: Tolstoy: art and conscience (Anna Karenina); 8: Saltykov-Shchedrin: The Golovlyov Family; 9: Dostoevsky: the dialectic of resistance; Part Three: The Revolutionary Crisis; The beginning of modern times; 10: Chekhov the humanist; 11: Gorky and proletarian writing; 12: The age of decadence; 13: Soviet writing: the creative start; 14: Socialist realism; 15: Doctor Zhivago: a novel in prose and verse; Notes and references; Select bibliography; Index

O autorze

Henry Gifford was Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol