The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark anthology of Russian literature, The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader presents a sweeping collection of prose, poetry, and drama drawn from one of the most turbulent and creatively explosive centuries in literary history. Edited and translated by the distinguished scholar Clarence Brown, the volume brings together works by Russia's most celebrated and controversial writers, from Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak to Mikhail Bulgakov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Brown's expert selection chronicles the full arc of the Soviet era, capturing the revolutionary fervor, Stalinist terror, and eventual thaw that shaped the nation's literary imagination. The anthology instructs as much as it illuminates, with authoritative introductions that place each writer and work in their historical and cultural context. Authoritative, essential, and beautifully curated, this collection remains one of the finest gateways into the rich tradition of modern Russian letters.
Author: Clarence Brown
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark anthology of Russian literature, The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader presents a sweeping collection of prose, poetry, and drama drawn from one of the most turbulent and creatively explosive centuries in literary history. Edited and translated by the distinguished scholar Clarence Brown, the volume brings together works by Russia's most celebrated and controversial writers, from Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak to Mikhail Bulgakov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Brown's expert selection chronicles the full arc of the Soviet era, capturing the revolutionary fervor, Stalinist terror, and eventual thaw that shaped the nation's literary imagination. The anthology instructs as much as it illuminates, with authoritative introductions that place each writer and work in their historical and cultural context. Authoritative, essential, and beautifully curated, this collection remains one of the finest gateways into the rich tradition of modern Russian letters.