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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn spite of Vasilii Shukshin's multifaceted talent as author, film director, and actor, he has been described simply as a narodnyi rasskazchik ('folk storyteller'). Until the Cock Crows Thrice, a modern-day fairy tale,...
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From: Kirkus Reviews[(review date 15 October 2006) In the following review, Allen praises Sacred Games as a rare contemporary novel in the epic tradition of Charles Dickens.] From Henry James sniffing fastidiously at those "huge fluid...
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From: A Question of Quality: Seasoned "Authors" for a New SeasonLolita stays like a deep tattoo. Critics tumble over one another racing to publish articles on its twists, myths and artifices. Paperback houses have reprinted it again and again. It is the second most often cited title...
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From: Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Smith argues that prominent references to Alexander Pushkin in two of Tolstaya’s stories constitute an attempt within the language and themes of each story to rescue Russia’s...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMost of Varlam Shalamov's stories deal with specific aspects of camp life. The phenomenon examined in "Zaklinatel' Zmei" ("The Snake Charmer") is the criminal convicts' love of listening to narratives of adventure and...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThe privileged first son of an aristocratic family, Vladimir Nabokov grew up fluent in Russian, English, and French. His early introduction to the glories of language developed into a lifelong fascination with words and...
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From: Slavic and East European Review[(essay date October 2000) In the following essay, Gregg notes that the open-endedness of The Queen of Spades ensures a wide variety of critical readings as he explores the idea that Germann unconcsciously punishes...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWritten in 1918, during the Russian Civil War, the story Detstvo Liuvers ("Zhenia Luvers' Childhood," also "The Childhood of Zhenia Luvers") bears no sign of the historical upheavals attending its composition. For some...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOne of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable pieces of short fiction is "Matrenin dvor" ("Matrena's House"). The time and setting of the story is the summer of 1953 in rural Russia. The first-person narrator is a man...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAleksandr Pushkin, a poet, first turned to prose fiction in 1830 with his Tales of Belkin. Russian prose writing was still in its infancy and, indeed, Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) is the first major Russian prose...
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From: The Nation[In the following excerpt, Leonard favorably reviews Tripmaster Monkey.] We won't get much of anywhere with Tripmaster Monkey unless we understand that Maxine Hong Kingston is playing around like a Nabokov with the two...
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From:Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper offers a close critical reading of I. J. Singer's little-noted short story "Liuk." This story is read in a Russian rather than Yiddish literary context to show the way in which Singer, writing as a Jew...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionFrom the early years of the Soviet regime to the present, the enduring fame of Mikhail Zoshchenko rests chiefly on his satiric sketches. He became a household word in Russia because the situations he described were drawn...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionVarlam Shalamov's short stories deal with the inmates of Stalin's concentration camps. The narrating voice is usually that of a released prisoner imaginatively reliving and rethinking his past. Whether directly...
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From: Reflections on Literature and Morality[In the following essay, Gide notes that the “clarity, balance, [and] harmony” of Pushkin's prose works set them apart from other Russian fiction of the same period.] French connoisseurs already know Pushkin's The...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 25, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed"I often think men do not understand the meaning of honour, though they are always talking about it." (Tolstoy, 154, emphasis added) At the end of Anna Karenina, Levin has an insight about the nature of discovering...
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From: Molière and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity[(essay date 1975) In the following essay, Louria discusses the influence of Molière's The Misanthrope on Griboedov's Woe from Wit and the failure of many critics to acknowledge that influence.] The year 1672 is...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Pkhentz" was the last of Andrei Siniavski's writings to be sent out to the West under the pseudonym Abram Terts before his arrest in 1965. Although it was referred to at the trial, it did not figure in his indictment....
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From: How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy[(essay date 2008) In the following excerpt, Meyer examines the influence of the French literary tradition on A Hero of Our Time, explicating Lermontov’s various borrowings from specific French texts throughout the...
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From: Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Translation, Scripts, Literacy[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Paolini explores why Chang translated and rewrote The Golden Cangue four times, concluding that Chang was able to both serve as a translator of Chinese culture to the world and...