Poetics of Valentin Kataev's Prose of the 1960s and 1970s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820410814)

Szarycz's book is a perceptive study of the dramatic change in the writings of Valentin Kataev, one of the most interesting of the establishment Soviet writers, whose creativity spanned the periods of literary modernism of the 1920s, the high Stalinist period of Socialist Realism, and the post-1953 Thaw. The topic of the book is precisely the writings of the latter period, in which Kataev breaks away from the rigid canons of Socialist Realism towards lyrical prose, blending the subjective world of the lyrical ego with the objective world of surrounding phenomena.

Author: Ireneusz Szarycz
ISBN-10: 0820410810
ISBN-13: 9780820410814
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1989
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover