The myth makers: literary essaysEssays on major European and Latin-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by the distinguished English man of letters, include lucid, sensitive interpretations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Flaubert, Stendhal, Kafka, Borges, and ot |
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Contents
BORIS PASTERNAK Unsafe Conduct | 9 |
ANTON CHEKHOV A Doctor | 37 |
LEO TOLSTOY The Despot | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Anton Chekhov aristocratic artist Assis Balzac become Borges bourgeois character Chekhov comedy comic criticism D. H. Lawrence death Dostoevsky Dr Zhivago dramatic dream E. H. Carr Eugene Onegin European fact fantasy father feeling Flaubert Fortunata French Galdos Genet George Sand girl Goncharov Gregory Rabassa heart human idea imagination irony Ivan Goncharov Karlinsky Lelia letters literary literature live looks lover Madame Bovary Marquez marriage married Merimee mind Mochulsky moral mother nature Nerzhin never Nohant novel novelist Oblomov obsession passion Pasternak peasant poem poet political portrait Portuguese prison Professor Brombert prose Pushkin Queiroz Ramires revolution Romantic Russian Sandbach says scene sense sexual simply social society Sologdin Solzhenitsyn soul Soviet Spanish Stefan Schimanski Stendhal Strindberg's style tale things tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's Tolstoyan tradition Translated Troyat Turgenev turned violence voice wife woman women words writing young Zola Zola's
Bibliographic information
| Title | The myth makers: literary essays |
| Author | Victor Sawdon Pritchett |
| Publisher | Random House, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Apr 1, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394504720, 9780394504728 |
| Length | 190 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / General Literature, Modern Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern/ 19th century/ History and criticism Literature, Modern/ 20th century/ History and criticism |
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