Fifty years of Russian prose : from Pasternak to Solzhenitsyn

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Fifty years of Russian prose : from Pasternak to Solzhenitsyn

edited by Krystyna Pomorska

MIT Press, c1971

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v. 1 ISBN 9780262160377

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The writings in this anthology represent a highly personal and qualitative selection from both the "golden period" of Russian prose immediately following the 1917 revolution and the period from Stalin's death to the present -- a time of "thaw," protest, and a new revival of art. 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 revived 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 poetry -- mainly 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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v. 2 ISBN 9780262160384

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A number of intellectual and literary events in Russia after 1953 led to a break in the code of Socialist Realism. Several courageous writers invoked sharp debate and attack by defending the individual's right to freely display his creative abilities in works that contained fundamental political and moral realities, couched in the unpredictable plot and the not-so-happy ending. Volume 2 of this anthology brings together stories by Russian writers of this new period. The pieces by Yashin, Nagibin, and Zhdanov have been taken from Literary Moscow, an almanac whose role in the revival of Russian literature is comparable to that of Ehrenburg's important novel, The Thaw. Singer and poet, Bulat Okudzhava is one of the best and most original representatives of the antiwar literature that developed after Stalin's death. His poetry and prose display strong thematic and lyrical ties and are developed to unmasking the false images of war -- its real and inglorious impact on people's lives. In addition to the proliferation of literature on social, political, and moral themes, a number of stories center on the world of children. Two fine examples are Seryozha by Vera Panova, and "The Fourth Daddy," by Yury Nagibin. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel laureate and author of the recent novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle, is perhaps the best known and most commanding figure among modern Soviet writers. He is represented in this book by three compelling stories set in provincial Russia. "Matryona's Home" describes the simple righteous existence of a peasant women in a small village, while "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" explores the complex character of a devoted Communist soldier. In the last story, "For the Good of the Cause," enthusiastic students of a technical school clash with Party bureaucrats, bringing to the surface petty ambitions and deceits that prevail despite changes in regime. These short stories as well as his novels link Solzhenitsyn to the tradition of great Russian classical prose, whose anecdotes are Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

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