Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Siberia on Fire brings together some of the best stories and essays by Valentin Rasputin, widely regarded as the finest writer in the Soviet Union today. Although the people and places that make up his fiction are characteristically Siberian, Rasputin's broad appeal and international recognition stem from universal themes--the interdependent elements of nature; the cultural and historical continuum maintained by past, present, and future generations; and the clash between modern and traditional mores. Rasputin was born in a small Siberian village on the Angara River in 1937 and educated at...

Mince, zaměřovaná, čára – znáte tyto dětské hry? A co se stane, když se z nevinného hráčského zápalu stane jediný způsob, jak přežít v cizím městě? Hodiny francouzštiny přináší krátký vhled do nelehkých poválečných let, a to očima hocha, který se již ve svých jedenácti letech ocitá na prahu dospělosti a musí si daleko od rodné vesnice poradit jak s učením a spolužáky, tak s věčně prázdným žaludkem. Hlavními aktéry črty ze sibiřského maloměsta roku 1948 jsou vedle autorova mladého alter ega hazard, hrdost a hlad – a také hodiny...

First published in Russian in 1974, "Live and Remember" was immediately hailed by Soviet critics as a superb if atypical example of war literature and a moving depiction of the degradation and ultimate damnation of a frontline deserter. The novel tells the story of a Siberian peasant who makes a tragic miscalculation by deserting in the last year of the war, and of the loyal wife who embraces his fate as her own.

A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress. Valentin Rasputin's novel of a village destroyed by anonymous technology argues that mankind can only be spiritually regenerated by returning to the old rural way of life.

This work offers an account of the Russians' 400 years of experience in Siberia. Rasputin looks at the the peculiar physical and character traits of the Siberian Russian type, and at the gap between dreams and reality that have plagued Russians in Siberia.