The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both migr literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and migr literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.06w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521698047

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011

About the Author
Dobrenko, Evgeny: - Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield.Balina, Marina: - Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.