The Myth Makers: Literary EssaysThe Myth Makers is the first volume of essays in fifteen years by V.S. Prichett, a literary critic. The Myth Makers gives us profound "re-views" of such literary masters as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola, George Sand, Machado de Assis, Strindberg, Kafka, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Borges, and Garcia Marquez, among others. Each essay featured illuminates the interplay between the life and work of a writer. |
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... Sologdin , a designer , a recalcitrant in for a twenty - five year stretch . Their task is sinister : to design an apparatus for codifying speech pat- terns and tracing telephone calls - a machine that Stalin has specially asked for ...
... Sologdin , a designer , a recalcitrant in for a twenty - five year stretch . Their task is sinister : to design an apparatus for codifying speech pat- terns and tracing telephone calls - a machine that Stalin has specially asked for ...
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... Sologdin , the unrepentant designer , that goes to the heart of the novel . The row is about ends and means . An excellent distinction is made : Rubin's situation ' seemed to him tragic in the Aristotelian sense ' . He had been dealt a ...
... Sologdin , the unrepentant designer , that goes to the heart of the novel . The row is about ends and means . An excellent distinction is made : Rubin's situation ' seemed to him tragic in the Aristotelian sense ' . He had been dealt a ...
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... Sologdin is his worst persecutor . Sologdin knew very well that Rubin was not an informer and would never be one . But at the moment the temptation was great to lump him with the security officers . . . . Sologdin says : ' Since all of ...
... Sologdin is his worst persecutor . Sologdin knew very well that Rubin was not an informer and would never be one . But at the moment the temptation was great to lump him with the security officers . . . . Sologdin says : ' Since all of ...
Contents
BORIS PASTERNAK Unsafe Conduct | 9 |
ANTON CHEKHOV A Doctor | 37 |
LEO TOLSTOY The Despot | 50 |
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