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Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A literary self-help memoir about using the Russian Classics to find the answer to life's most important questions.Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you back enough (The Master and Margarita),or...
4) Russians: then and now: a selection of Russian writing from the seventeenth century to our own day
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1963]
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 53
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book uses the figure of Pushkin--'the Russian Shakespeare'--as a recurring example, as his work influenced...