Litteraturvetenskap: från 1900

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Unions collapse from him in order to keep himand his pensionalive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikovas The Ma...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018 Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, the...

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Recording the daily lives of Muscovites in the Brezhnev period, this novel focuses on the moral compromise and deceptions involved in everyday life, with colloquial language. The author is a literary figure of the 1960s and 70s in the Soviet Union...

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The Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet ex...

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The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression...

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Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for Indias separation from British rule, which argued that the In...

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