From Pushkin to Palisandriia : essays on the Russian novel in honor of Richard Freeborn
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From Pushkin to Palisandriia : essays on the Russian novel in honor of Richard Freeborn
(Studies in Russia and East Europe)
Macmillan in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Richard Freeborn, who in 1988 retired from the Chair of Russian Literature at London University was a scholar, translator, novelist and amateur painter, and is best known for his extensive critical writings on Russian prose of the 19th and 20th centuries. It should be noted that it was also he who first introduced the work of Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov to an English-speaking audience. It is however, for his work on the Russian novel that he is particularly renowned, and accordingly it is to this theme that the present collection of essays in his honour are devoted. Written by some of his former colleagues and pupils, they range from new assessments of well-known and neglected authors, to studies of individual novels, from Pushkin at the begining of the 19th century to post-modernism at the end of the 20th.
Table of Contents
- Pushkin and the novel, David Budgen
- "Geroi nashego vremeni" as emblematic prose text, Robin Aizlewood
- the analytical genius - "Bednye liudi" and the Russian prose tradition, Richard Peace
- Dumas and Dostoevskii - deflowering the camellia, Donald Rayfield
- aspects of novelistic technique in "Besy", Roy Davison
- dreams and fantasy in "Oblomov", Faith Wigzell
- no smoke without fire - the genesis of Turgenev's "Dym", Patrick Waddington
- Turgenev's constancy in his final novel, James Woodward
- the prose of Anatolii Mariengof, Gordon McVay
- Tynianov's "Smert Vazir Mukhtara", Don Piper
- double bill - Nabokov and Olesha, Jane Grayson
- soviet responses to "Doktor Zhivago", Neil Cornwell
- the novel approach of A.A.Zinoviev, Michael Kirkwood
- abberation or the future - the avant-garde novels of Sasha Sokolov, Arnold McMillin.
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