The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521875356)

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
ISBN-10: 0521875358
ISBN-13: 9780521875356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2011
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011