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Andrei Egunov-Nikolev - Beyond Tula, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Beyond Tula

A Soviet Pastoral

Av Andrei Egunov-Nikolev

Del i serien Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

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Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet “production” prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an industrializing rural proletariat, this “Soviet pastoral” actually appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called “light genres”—Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder.
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Ainsley Morse is a teacher, translator, and scholar of Slavic languages and literatures, primarily Russian. She currently teaches at Pomona College.

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“The best way to think of [Beyond Tula] is as a kind of layer cake, abook that tries to be an Ancient Greek romance, a Soviet-era production novel,a summer idyll, a parody of various 19th-century Russian tropes and ideas, asour analysis of human nature, and a homoerotic buddy story, all at the sametime. It skips from satire to parody to music-hall comedy (the charactersare constantly singing snatches of popular romances) in a way that is dizzyingto read and must have been a riot to translate. (Ainsley Morse’s translation isimpeccable: enjoyable, coherent, inventive, and at times very funny.) … BeyondTula is a fine addition to the subgenre of Lucianian satires about nothingmuch, about mooching and musing, alongside Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalistor Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet. We are lucky to have it in aforthright and laugh-out-loud funny English translation that pops and bubbles.”—James Womack, Los Angeles Review of Books

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