Janko Lavrin

An Introduction to the Russian Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol - in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138941786
• ISBN-10: 1138941786
• Artikelnr.: 48314785

Autorenporträt

Janko Lavrin

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory Note; 1. The Beginnings of Russian Fiction 2. Pushkin and
Lermontov 3. Gogol and Realism 4. Fermentation of Ideas 5. From Gogol to
Turgenev 6. Goncharov 7. Critical Realism 8. Populists and Others 9.
Dostoevsky 10. Tolstoy 11. The Chekhov Period 12. Maxim Gorky 13. The
Modernist Movement 14. Some Later Realists 15. Revolution and Civil War 16.
Soviet Life in Literature 17. Links with the Past and the Future 18. The
Second World War and After; Conclusion; Index of Names