| Description |
ix, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Modern Russian criticism from Andrej Belyj to Andrej Sinjavskij: trends, issues, personalities / V. Erlich -- The symbolists: Gogol / A. Belyj. The aesthetics of Gogol's Dead souls and its legacy / I. Annenskij -- Formalists and near-formalists: Pushkin and Sterne: Eugene Onegin / V. Shklovskij. Parallels in Tolstoy / V. Shklovskij. Pushkin's path to prose / B. Eikhenbaum. On Tolstoy's crises / B. Eikhenbaum. Dostoevsky and Gogol / J. Tynjanov. The passion of Aleksandr Blok / V. Zhirmunskij. On a generation that squandered its poets / R. Jakobson -- Early Soviet Marxists: Majakovskij and Russian futurism / L. Trotsky. Isaac Babel / A. Voronskij. The enigma of Tolstoy / M. Aldanov. From Chekhonte to Chekhov / P. Bitsilli. Vladimir Nabokov / G. Adamovich -- The recent scene: On Boris Pasternak / A. Sinjavskij. Mikhail Bulgakov's The master and Margarita / V. Lakshin. The poetics of Osip Mandelstam / L. Ginzburg |
| Notes |
'The essays have been translated [from the Russian] and annotated by Victor Erlich and several [i.e. 10] collaborators' - book jacket |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Criticism -- Russia.
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Criticism -- Soviet Union.
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Russian literature -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Erlich, Victor, 1914-2007.
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| LC no. |
74029720 |
| ISBN |
0300018630 |
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