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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Page 19
... characters that enliven the texture of its background . Such characters in Dead Souls as the inn - servant or Chichikov's valet ( who had a special smell of his own which he imparted at once to his variable lodgings ) do not quite ...
... characters that enliven the texture of its background . Such characters in Dead Souls as the inn - servant or Chichikov's valet ( who had a special smell of his own which he imparted at once to his variable lodgings ) do not quite ...
Page 52
... characters not " wholly virtuous " but " important " in the sense of their fully representing a rich mixture of Russian passions , moods and ideals , he gradually discovered that these " important " characters coming from under his pen ...
... characters not " wholly virtuous " but " important " in the sense of their fully representing a rich mixture of Russian passions , moods and ideals , he gradually discovered that these " important " characters coming from under his pen ...
Page 142
... characters seem to move with the same swing as the people passing under our window while we sit reading his book . The queer thing about it is that actually Tolstoy was rather careless when dealing with the objective idea of time . In ...
... characters seem to move with the same swing as the people passing under our window while we sit reading his book . The queer thing about it is that actually Tolstoy was rather careless when dealing with the objective idea of time . In ...
Contents
Russian Writers Censors and Readers | 1 |
NIKOLAY GOGOL | 15 |
IVAN TURGENEV | 63 |
Copyright | |
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