The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story by Lyudmila Parts

The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story by Lyudmila Parts

The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author's oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory.

Parts (Russian, McGill University) brings together an international group of scholars for an analysis of the Russian short story in the twentieth centuryShe considers first if there is something particular about the character Russian short story but leaves the reader to decide. The essays discuss writers well known in the West, such as Chekhov, Nabokov and Pasternak along with those not yet recognized outside Russia: Andrei Platonov, Yury Olesha, Isaak Babel, Abram Tertz, Vasili Shukshin, Varlan Shamalov, Tatiana Tolstaia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaia, Victor Erofeev, Andrei Bitov and Viktor Pelevin. One chapter is a translation of a story by Petrushevskaia. Some of the essays place the stories within Communist or pre-revolutionary society. Others are seen as a reflection of universal emotions. The themes of memory, childhood and loss appear often in the stories chosen for commentary. The authors speculate on whether there is a difference in the way these are treated by the Russian writers. This is an interesting study of both Russian writers and the form of the short story itself. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)|“…The content of this collection is timely and appropriate ten years intot he twenty-first century as a point of entry for evaluation and reflection on exclusively twentieth-century literary phenomena in Russia.  The articles within would complement the texts typically included in a graduate-level or advanced undergraduate-level course in twentieth century literature and culture.  Similarly, for the scholar of twentieth-century literature, this is a nice collection for personal reference.” —Rachel Stauffer, University of Virginia, in Slavic and East European Journal|“The strongest essays are those on Isaak Babel’ (by the late Robert Maguire), Varlam Shalamov (Leona Toker), and Vasilii Shukshin (Diane Nemec Ignashev). . . . [T]his volume is a welcome reminder of the varied scholarship inspired by the literature of the last century. Recommended.” —B. M. Sutcliffe, Miami University, in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2010

Lyudmila Parts (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an associate professor at the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at McGill University. Her book The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (2008) explores the intersection of intertextuality, cultural memory, and cultural myth. She has published articles on Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya, P'etsukh, and Pelevin.

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ISBN 13	9781934843444
ISBN 10	193484344X
Title	The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
Author	Lyudmila Parts
Series	Cultural Revolutions: Russia In The Twentieth Century
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Academic Studies Press
Year published	2009-12-17
Number of pages	400
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