This book, first published in 1984, is a detailed biography of Solzhenitsyn. It covers every period of his life, showing how Solzhenitsyns development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society. At the same time, this book relates Sol...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1981, examines four of the greatest Russian poets, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva, their struggle to survive the Stalin years, and their dedication to their art despite considerab...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1972, discusses Chekhovs last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and biography of many of Russias greatest writers, closely examines Chekhovs work for the relevant facts about his writing....Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and as a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been better...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1977, analyses the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers. It examines their environment: the geography, ethnography, economics, and the impact of the competing forces of cohesion and disruption in imperial society...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors. They are written in varying styles, and are a key introduction to the Russian language used in the Soviet period, an analysis of the...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1957, provides essential information on the entire field of Russian literature, as well as a great deal on literary criticism, journalism, philosophy, theatre and related subjects. Although intended primarily as a refer...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1943, collects together a rich variety of pre-revolutionary Russian literature as well as a host of Soviet literature. Together they reveal the dynamic character of Russian literature, and provide a useful contrast betw...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevskys novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creators tormented experience and personality. It draws upon important fresh source material, and considers all Dostoyevskys works,...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1947, examines the truly vital and enduring qualities of the leading Russian writers, as literature and as interesting documents of phases of Russian history. This is one of the most striking features of Russian literat...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia. A variety of critical approaches matches the diversity of Russian w...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russias modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Professor Hingley places their lives and work firmly in the setting of the USSRs social and political structure....Lasīt vairāk
This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history to produce some of his countrys greatest...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhovs life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day. Using Chekhovs works, biographical details, and his l...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters. Taken as a group they are a microcosm of Rus...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirskys classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature. Beautifully written, Mirskys analyses of Russian w...Lasīt vairāk
