Love And Russian Literature

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141393179

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Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin Pdf

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.'

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350115033

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Love and Russian Literature by Ira B. Nadel Pdf

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Author : Ivan Turgenev
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667601540

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First Love by Ivan Turgenev Pdf

Ivan Turgenev's classic of Russian Literature. Includes a lengthy biographical introduction. Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a degree of respectability because of their titles; the Zasyekins, in the case of this story, are a very poor family. The young Vladimir falls irretrievably in love with Zinaida, who has a set of several other (socially more eligible) suitors whom he joins in their difficult and often fruitless search for the young lady's favour.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307788092

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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

Author : Alex Christofi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472964700

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Dostoevsky in Love by Alex Christofi Pdf

'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' – Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as among the finest ever written. In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole. The result is a novelistic life that immerses the reader in a grand vista of Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky's: the consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy. Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life – and literary stardom – not intervened. He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover, an empathetic friend of the people, a loyal brother and friend, and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul.

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307959645

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Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087987206

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Russian Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027215369

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Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Pdf

This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of the contributions are original publications by present-day specialists in the field. This is a book which may benefit literary scholars as well as professional psychoanalysts.

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0916201074

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Secret Journal 1836-1837 by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Pdf

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795348396

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The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, “a classic of twentieth-century fiction” (The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit. In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold. At the intersection of fantasy and realism, satire and unflinching emotional truths, Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic The Master and Margarita eloquently lampoons every aspect of Soviet life under Stalin’s regime, from politics to art to religion, while interrogating the complexities between good and evil, innocence and guilt, and freedom and oppression. Spanning from Moscow to Biblical Jerusalem, a vibrant cast of characters—a “magician” who is actually the devil in disguise, a giant cat, a witch, a fanged assassin—sow mayhem and madness wherever they go, mocking artists, intellectuals, and politicians alike. In and out of the fray weaves a man known only as the Master, a writer demoralized by government censorship, and his mysterious lover, Margarita. Burned in 1928 by the author and restarted in 1930, The Master and Margarita was Bulgakov’s last completed creative work before his death. It remained unpublished until 1966—and went on to become one of the most well-regarded works of Russian literature of the twentieth century, adapted or referenced in film, television, radio, comic strips, theater productions, music, and opera.

Author : Sona Stephan Hoisington
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810112248

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A Plot of Her Own by Sona Stephan Hoisington Pdf

A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation. The female protagonists in the works examined are inextricably linked with the fundamental issues raised by the novels they inform; the interpretations offered strive not to be reductive or doctrinaire, not to be imposed from the outside but to arise from the texts themselves and the historical circumstances in which they were written. Authors discussed include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov, and the novels considered range from Fathers and Children to Zamyatin's anti-Utopian We. Throughout, the contributors new visions expand our understanding of the words and reveal new significance in them.

Author : Valeria Sobol
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295990378

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Febris Erotica by Valeria Sobol Pdf

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol argues that Russian writers were deeply preoccupied with the nature of romantic relationships and were persistent in their use of lovesickness not simply as a traditional theme but as a way to address pressing philosophical, ethical, and ideological concerns through a recognizable literary trope. Sobol examines stereotypes about the damaging effects of romantic love and offers a short history of the topos of lovesickness in Western literature and medicine. Read an interview with the author: http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/valeria_sobol_interview_febris_erotica_lovesickness_russian_literary_imagin/

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350115026

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Love and Russian Literature by Ira B. Nadel Pdf

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664107428

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First love, and other stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Pdf

"First Love, And Other Stories" is a collection of works by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The collection contains such short stories as: "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."

Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788577770410

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7 Best Short Stories by Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin Pdf

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin - we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Pushkin selected by August Nemo: The Queen of Spades The Shot The Snowstorm The Postmaster The Coffin-maker Kirdjali Peter, The Great's Negro