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Mikhail Zoshchenko Linda Hart Scatton

Mikhail Zoshchenko By Linda Hart Scatton

Mikhail Zoshchenko by Linda Hart Scatton


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Dr Scatton explores the critical and political reception of a complex artist in a society where the purpose of art was to serve the state. Her book sheds new light on questions of literary politics in totalitarian societies, as well as bringing English-speaking readers a taste of a most original writer.

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Mikhail Zoshchenko: Evolution of a Writer by Linda Hart Scatton

Mikhail Zoshchenko was a household name in the Soviet Union from the 1920s until the crackdown on the arts after World War II. This is a full-length study in English of his career, and of his critical and political reception in a society where the purpose of art was service to the state. It places his longer works and the events leading up to his literary assassination in 1946 in the context of the short, riotous works that won him mass readership and a devoted following among contemporary writers who agreed with each other on little else. Dr Scatton identifies stylistic and thematic unities in his prose, and argues that Zoshchenko's later works were natural outgrowths of his earlier experiments and not, as is often stated, aberrations or expressions of subservience to the regime. Both as a master of Russian prose and a victim of Stalinist literary politics, Zoshchenko has been the object of critical rediscovery and reassessment over the last 15 years. This book describes that process.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on translation and transliteration; Part I. Everyone's Favorite Funny Man: 1. The artistic evolution nobody (but the artist) wanted; 2. From fame to infamy: 1921-1958; 3. 'Straight out of Zoshchenko!': the writer as household word; Part II. Deviations from Well-Trod Literary Paths: 4. The Novellas; 5. Biography and 'autobiography'; 6. Children's literature; 7. Youth Restored; 8. A Skyblue Book; 9. Before sunrise; Conclusion: writing literature to heal, shape, reform; Appendix: posthumous recognition and criticism in the USSR and abroad; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521114974
9780521114974
0521114977
Mikhail Zoshchenko: Evolution of a Writer by Linda Hart Scatton
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-06-25
316
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