Lectures on Russian Literature, Volume 1The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians" (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations. |
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... Andrey Bely , a precursor of James Joyce , Aleksandr Blok , the symbolist , and several other avant - garde poets appeared on the lighted stage . When , less than a year after the Liberal Revolution , the Bolshevik leaders overturned ...
... Andrey Bely , a precursor of James Joyce , Aleksandr Blok , the symbolist , and several other avant - garde poets appeared on the lighted stage . When , less than a year after the Liberal Revolution , the Bolshevik leaders overturned ...
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... Andrey Bely , who was a meddler of genius , saw in fact the whole first volume of Dead Souls as a closed circle whirling on its axle and blurring the spokes , with the theme of the wheel cropping up at each new revolution on round ...
... Andrey Bely , who was a meddler of genius , saw in fact the whole first volume of Dead Souls as a closed circle whirling on its axle and blurring the spokes , with the theme of the wheel cropping up at each new revolution on round ...
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... Andrey Bely , following up one of those strange subconscious clues which are discoverable only in the works of authentic genius , noted that this box was the wife of Chichikov ( who otherwise was as impotent as all Gogol's sub- human ...
... Andrey Bely , following up one of those strange subconscious clues which are discoverable only in the works of authentic genius , noted that this box was the wife of Chichikov ( who otherwise was as impotent as all Gogol's sub- human ...
Contents
Russian Writers Censors and Readers | 1 |
NIKOLAY GOGOL | 15 |
IVAN TURGENEV | 63 |
Copyright | |
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