| Description |
1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Contents |
Bolsheviks in New York. Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America : Korolenko and Gorky ; Post-revolutionary Columbuses : Esenin and Mayakovsky ; Automobile journeys of the 1930s : Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov -- The American text of Russian literature. Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues -- Yankees in Petrograd. Reverse American travelogues -- Conclusion : from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca |
| Summary |
In Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, one of the protagonists feigns suicide and goes to America. In Fedor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Svidrigailov announces: "I'm going to America," then commits suicide. When in America - "on the other shore," as Russians sometimes put it - Russian émigré characters and writers often feel that, although they have now acquired a new life, this life approximates a posthumous experience. Although the country across the ocean had already begun to acquire concrete historical features in the Russian mind by the last quarter of the eighteenth century, connotations of the Other World, the land on the other side of earthly existence, continue to lurk in the background of literary texts about the New World |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Americans in literature.
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Authors, Russian -- Travel -- United States
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Travelers' writings, Russian -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Americans in literature.
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Authors, Russian -- Travel.
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Travelers' writings, Russian.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Description and travel -- In literature
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allshouse, Shaun, designer
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| ISBN |
9781609090852 |
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1609090853 |
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0875804705 |
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9780875804705 |
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9781501758171 |
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1501758179 |
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