1st Edition

An Introduction to the Russian Novel

By Jean Piaget Copyright 1942
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Prefatory Note;  1. The Beginnings of Russian Fiction  2. Pushkin and Lermontov  3. Gogol and Realism  4. Fermentation of Ideas  5. From Gogol to Turgenev  6. Goncharov  7. Critical Realism  8. Populists and Others  9. Dostoevsky  10. Tolstoy  11. The Chekhov Period  12. Maxim Gorky  13. The Modernist Movement  14. Some Later Realists  15. Revolution and Civil War  16. Soviet Life in Literature  17. Links with the Past and the Future  18. The Second World War and After;  Conclusion;  Index of Names

    Biography

    Janko Lavrin