Russian Themes - Hardcover

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 373 pages; Physical description. : [9], 373 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Translated from the Russian. Contents: Abram Tertz : flight from the test tube -- Dostoevsky's and Solzhenitsyn's House of the dead -- Dostoevsky today -- Notes on Dostoevsky -- How Russia was crucified : Seeds of tomorrow, by M. Sholokhov -- Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Russian modernism -- Evgeny Zamyatin : the Chagall of Russian literature -- Some relevant historical associations -- At the crossroads : notes on contemporary Russian prose -- The mission of Novy mir -- The moral of a polemic -- Why we are silent -- The unspoken defense. Subject: Russian literature - Bio-bibliography. Russian literature - History and criticism. Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism. Soviet Union - Intellectual life.