Modernism and revolution: Russian literature in transition

The period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and p...

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1. Verfasser: Erlich, Victor 1914- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:The period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another
Victor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution, a masterful appraisal of Russian literature during its most turbulent years
Probing the salient literary responses to the upheaval that changed the face of Russia, Erlich offers a new perspective on that period of artistic and political ferment. He begins by revisiting the highlights of early twentieth century Russian poetry - including the works of such masters as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak - and goes on to examine the major prose writers of the first post-revolutionary decade
Beschreibung:314 S.
ISBN:0674580702