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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... tradition of the nineteenth - century Russian novel as it appears in the prophet - preacher writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky , now one , now the other ; as a polemical writer , in the tradition of Belinsky and Herzen . If history has ...
... tradition of the nineteenth - century Russian novel as it appears in the prophet - preacher writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky , now one , now the other ; as a polemical writer , in the tradition of Belinsky and Herzen . If history has ...
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... tradition of the literary intelligentsia , that is to say the tradition which , starting with the great Belinsky , demanded a didactic social content in literature and which was continued by Chernyshevsky , Pisarev and Dobrolyubov ...
... tradition of the literary intelligentsia , that is to say the tradition which , starting with the great Belinsky , demanded a didactic social content in literature and which was continued by Chernyshevsky , Pisarev and Dobrolyubov ...
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... traditions of Carnival in which the types are contemporary and not mythical . At this point Bakhtin takes a long , effusive , learned flight into the history of the scandalous Carnival tradition and is immensely suggestive . It is ...
... traditions of Carnival in which the types are contemporary and not mythical . At this point Bakhtin takes a long , effusive , learned flight into the history of the scandalous Carnival tradition and is immensely suggestive . It is ...
Contents
BORIS PASTERNAK Unsafe Conduct | 9 |
ANTON CHEKHOV A Doctor | 37 |
LEO TOLSTOY The Despot | 57 |
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Anton Chekhov aristocratic artist Assis Balzac become Borges bourgeois character Chekhov comedy comic criticism D. H. Lawrence death Dom Casmurro Doña Lupe Dostoevsky Dr Zhivago dramatic dream E. H. Carr EÇA DE QUEIROZ Eugene Onegin European fact fantasy father feeling Flaubert Fortunata French Galdos Genet George Sand girl Goncharov heart human idea imagination Ivan Goncharov Karlinsky Lélia letters literary literature live looks lover Madame Bovary Márquez marriage married Mérimée mind Mochulsky moral mother nature Nerzhin never 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 Stendhal Strindberg's style tale things tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's tradition Translated Troyat Turgenev turned violence voice wife woman women words writing young Zola Zola's