Fifty Years of Russian Prose : From Pasternak to Solzhenitsyn (Vol. 1)
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1973
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- Title
- Fifty Years of Russian Prose : From Pasternak to Solzhenitsyn (Vol. 1)
- Author
- Pomorska, Krystyna (editor)
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- G-vg
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262660199
- ISBN 13
- 9780262660198
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A number of the stories have been published previously, but about half are original translations. They vary in length from five to over a hundred pages. Each volume in the anthology contains an introductory essay by Krystyna Pomorska and brief biographical sketches of the authors.
Volume 1 presents fifteen stories by writers from a variety of schools who have marked differences in belief yet who share an unconventional approach to verbal materials. Most of these pieces were written during the 1920s, a period in which Russian prose style revealed the influence of experimental poetry and the cinema of such innovators as Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, and Dziga Vertov.
Social and political realities of the time are foreshadowed in a variety of styles, ranging from romanticism to swift ellipses, or montage. As Krystyna Pomorska points out, by the late 1920s Russian literature still felt the impact of the two major movements, Symbolism and Futurism, which, despite their many differences, together revealed the idea of pure literary values, "whether those of Symbolist aestheticism or those of strict Futurist craftsmanship."
The book opens with two of Pasternak's early works that are closely related in content and style to his poetrymainly by metonymic principle, which links Pasternak with the experimental art of his time and which forms the basis for the construction of his late novel Doctor Zhivago. Stories by Boris Pilnyak and by Alexander Tarasov-Rodyonov focus on the impact of totalitarian ideology on the individual. In The Cave, Evgeny Zamyatin unfolds a tale in which civil warfare forces the people to a desperate existence on the periphery of life.
The book closes with a piece by Victor Nekrasov, a writer of the new era. Senka is derived from his own experience in the corps of engineers during World War II and marks the beginning of pacifist and "anti-heroic" themes that later appear in the Soviet film The Ballad of a Soldier and in both poetry and prose by Bulat Okudzhava, included in the second volume of this anthology.
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