Farewell to Matyora - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0026011603 ISBN 13: 9780026011600

Synopsis

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.

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Review

""Farewell to Matyora "is, next to Solzhenitsyn's" One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and 'Matryona's Home, ' the most important work of literature written and published in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death in 1953 and the beginning of glasnost in 1985." --Kathleen Parthe" "Farewell to Matyora is, next to Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and 'Matryona's Home, ' the most important work of literature written and published in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death in 1953 and the beginning of glasnost in 1985." --Kathleen Parthe "Remarkable. . . . Rasputin is the kind of writer of whom Chekhov, that most sensible of all Russian writers, would have approved--a man linked to the soil through its people, apolitical without being nihilistic, profoundly humane." --Christian Science Monitor

About the Author

Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (born March 15, 1937) is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin covers complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival. Kathleen Parthe is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Rochester and the author of Russian Village Prose. Antonina W. Bouis has translated numerous novels and plays from the Russian.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0026011603
• ISBN 13: 9780026011600
• Binding: Paperback