An Introduction to the Russian Novel
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An Introduction to the Russian Novel

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An Introduction to the Russian Novel

About this book

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781138941786
eBook ISBN
9781317376446
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Index of Names

A

  • Aksalov (the brothers) 42, 59
  • Aksalov, Sergai I. 58–60, 248
  • Aldanov (Landau), Mark 183
  • Andreyev, Leonid 168–170, 173
  • Annenkov 26
  • Artsybashev, N. 170
  • Asch, Sholom 171
  • Association of Writers of the U.S.S.R. 230
  • Averchenko, Arkady 211
  • Averkakh 206
  • Avvakum, Archpriest 3

B

  • Babel, Isaac 189, 190, 193
  • Bakunin 41, 44, 45, 49, 113
  • Balanche 42
  • Balmont 157
  • Balzac 105
  • Baudelaire 156
  • Bazhov, P. 245
  • Belinsky, Vissarion 32, 37, 38, 44–46, 51–53, 57, 58, 71, 84, 92, 225
  • Bely, Andrey (pseud.) 159, 164–168, 180, 181, 190, 192, 195, 200, 216, 224
  • Bestuzhev-Marlinsky 10, 25
  • Blanc, Louis 53
  • Blok, Alexander 158, 161, 164, 168, 186, 224
  • Boborykin, N. D. 102, 139
  • Bonald, de 42
  • Borodin, Sergey 240
  • Bryusov, Valery Y. 157, 159, 164
  • Budantsev, Sergey 217
  • Bugayev, Boris see (Bely, Andrey)
  • Bulgakov, Michael 199, 209
  • Bulgarin, Faddei 10, 11
  • Bunin, Ivan 171, 172, 176, 177, 179, 194, 210
  • Byron 14, 15, 17, 18, 21

C

  • Catherine II 6
  • Chaadayev, Peter 42, 43
  • Chapygin, Alexey 221
  • Chateaubriand 18
  • Chekhov, Anton P. 21, 69, 136, 139–146, 150, 154, 155, 176, 179, 194, 211, 214
  • Chernyshevsky, Nikolai G. 52, 53, 84, 204
  • Chirikov 171
  • Chu...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Title Page
  6. PREFATORY NOTE
  7. Contents
  8. I. THE BEGINNINGS OF RUSSIAN FICTION
  9. II. PUSHKIN AND LERMONTOV
  10. III. GOGOL AND REALISM
  11. IV. FERMENTATION OF IDEAS
  12. V. FROM GOGOL TO TURGENEV
  13. VI. GONCHAROV
  14. VII. CRITICAL REALISM
  15. VIII. POPULISTS AND OTHERS
  16. IX. DOSTOEVSKY
  17. X. TOLSTOY
  18. XI. THE CHEKHOV PERIOD
  19. XII. MAXIM GORKY
  20. XIII. THE MODERNIST MOVEMENT
  21. XIV. SOME LATER REALISTS
  22. XV. REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR
  23. XVI. SOVIET LIFE IN LITERATURE
  24. XVII. LINKS WITH THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
  25. XVIII. THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND AFTER
  26. CONCLUSION
  27. INDEX OF NAMES