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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An Introduction to the Russian Novel
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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
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- I. THE BEGINNINGS OF RUSSIAN FICTION
- II. PUSHKIN AND LERMONTOV
- III. GOGOL AND REALISM
- IV. FERMENTATION OF IDEAS
- V. FROM GOGOL TO TURGENEV
- VI. GONCHAROV
- VII. CRITICAL REALISM
- VIII. POPULISTS AND OTHERS
- IX. DOSTOEVSKY
- X. TOLSTOY
- XI. THE CHEKHOV PERIOD
- XII. MAXIM GORKY
- XIII. THE MODERNIST MOVEMENT
- XIV. SOME LATER REALISTS
- XV. REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR
- XVI. SOVIET LIFE IN LITERATURE
- XVII. LINKS WITH THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
- XVIII. THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND AFTER
- CONCLUSION
- INDEX OF NAMES
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