Dictionary Of Russian Literature Since 1917
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Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
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From the seismic rupture of the 1917 Revolution to the complex literary landscape of the late Soviet era, Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917 stands as an indispensable guide to one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in world literature. Wolfgang Kasack, a leading German Slavicist, presents a meticulously researched compendium of authors, works, literary movements, and genres that shaped Russian writing across seven decades of communist rule — from Socialist Realism's suffocating grip to the underground currents of samizdat and the émigré voices scattered across Europe and beyond. Translated by Maria Carlson and Jane T. Hedges, with bibliographical revisions by Rebecca Atack, this English-language edition makes Kasack's authoritative scholarship accessible to a broader international readership, serving as both a scholarly reference and a gateway into a world where literature was simultaneously a weapon, a refuge, and an act of defiance. With concise yet illuminating entries on figures ranging from Maxim Gorky and Boris Pasternak to lesser-known but equally significant writers, the work argues powerfully for the vitality of Russian letters even under the most repressive conditions — leaving the reader to wonder just how many more voices remain yet to be fully discovered.
Author: Wolfgang Kasack
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Columbia University Press
Genre: Dictionaries
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
From the seismic rupture of the 1917 Revolution to the complex literary landscape of the late Soviet era, Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917 stands as an indispensable guide to one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in world literature. Wolfgang Kasack, a leading German Slavicist, presents a meticulously researched compendium of authors, works, literary movements, and genres that shaped Russian writing across seven decades of communist rule — from Socialist Realism's suffocating grip to the underground currents of samizdat and the émigré voices scattered across Europe and beyond. Translated by Maria Carlson and Jane T. Hedges, with bibliographical revisions by Rebecca Atack, this English-language edition makes Kasack's authoritative scholarship accessible to a broader international readership, serving as both a scholarly reference and a gateway into a world where literature was simultaneously a weapon, a refuge, and an act of defiance. With concise yet illuminating entries on figures ranging from Maxim Gorky and Boris Pasternak to lesser-known but equally significant writers, the work argues powerfully for the vitality of Russian letters even under the most repressive conditions — leaving the reader to wonder just how many more voices remain yet to be fully discovered.