Author: I︠U︡riĭ Dombrovskiĭ
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Keeper of Antiquities
Author: I︠U︡riĭ Dombrovskiĭ
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Keeper of Antiquities, a Novel [by] Yury Dombrovsky
Author: IUrii Osipovich Dombrovskii
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
Author: I︠U︡riĭ Osipovich Dombrovskiĭ
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9781846556982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This important novel, first published in Russian in 1978, reveals a master of the Stalinist era. The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon, he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow. Vivid, courageous and defiant, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is the crowning achievement by the author of The Keeper of Antiquities and The Dark Lady and draws heavily on autobiographical experience. A masterpiece of anti-totalitarian literature, it stands alongside the works of Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov in illuminating the chaos, absurdity and bureaucratic labyrinths of Soviet Russia.
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9781846556982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This important novel, first published in Russian in 1978, reveals a master of the Stalinist era. The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon, he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow. Vivid, courageous and defiant, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is the crowning achievement by the author of The Keeper of Antiquities and The Dark Lady and draws heavily on autobiographical experience. A masterpiece of anti-totalitarian literature, it stands alongside the works of Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov in illuminating the chaos, absurdity and bureaucratic labyrinths of Soviet Russia.
The Keeper of Antiquities
Author: I͡Uriĭ Osipovich Dombrovskiĭ
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9780002710923
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Set in the remote capital of Kazakhstan, far away from Moscow, this novel begins with a leisurely, almost scholarly air. Soon it turns into a game of professional rivalry between the keeper of the town's museum and the chief librarian, in a struggle for control over the meaning of the past.
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9780002710923
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Set in the remote capital of Kazakhstan, far away from Moscow, this novel begins with a leisurely, almost scholarly air. Soon it turns into a game of professional rivalry between the keeper of the town's museum and the chief librarian, in a struggle for control over the meaning of the past.
Хранитель Древностей. The Keeper of Antiquities. A Novel Translated ... by Michael Glenny, Etc
Author: Yury Osipovich DOMBROVSKY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Author: Peter Melville Logan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111877907X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111877907X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
The Collector's Voice
Author: Susan Pearce
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351964097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351964097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin
The Old Man
Author: I︠U︡riĭ Trifonov
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident during the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; by suggesting that this idealism may have been tainted in the first place, Trifonov implicitly blames the past for the ills of the present. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident during the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; by suggesting that this idealism may have been tainted in the first place, Trifonov implicitly blames the past for the ills of the present. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance." --Book Jacket.
Novel with Cocaine
Author: M. Ageyev
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.
Representation of Stalinist Themes and the Recovery of Cultural Memory in the "novels of Death"
Author: Tatiana Dekterev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description