Mikhail Zoshchenko
Evolution of a Writer
Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Linda Hart Scatton
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114974
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Mikhail Zoshchenko was a household name in the Soviet Union from the 1920s until the crackdown on the arts after World War II. This is a full-length study in English of his career, and of his critical and political reception in a society where the purpose of art was service to the state. It places his longer works and the events leading up to his literary assassination in 1946 in the context of the short, riotous works that won him mass readership and a devoted following among contemporary writers who agreed with each other on little else. Dr Scatton identifies stylistic and thematic unities in his prose, and argues that Zoshchenko's later works were natural outgrowths of his earlier experiments and not, as is often stated, aberrations or expressions of subservience to the regime. Both as a master of Russian prose and a victim of Stalinist literary politics, Zoshchenko has been the object of critical rediscovery and reassessment over the last 15 years. This book describes that process.
Read more- This is the first full-length study in English of a highly popular Soviet writer who was a household name from 1921 to 1946
- It explores important problems of literary politics in totalitarian societies
- It gives an overview of Zoshchenko's reception, in his own time and more recently, when he has been rediscovered through Glasnost
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114974
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on translation and transliteration
Part I. Everyone's Favorite Funny Man:
1. The artistic evolution nobody (but the artist) wanted
2. From fame to infamy:
1921–1958
3. 'Straight out of Zoshchenko!': the writer as household word
Part II. Deviations from Well-Trod Literary Paths:
4. The Novellas
5. Biography and 'autobiography'
6. Children's literature
7. Youth Restored
8. A Skyblue Book
9. Before sunrise
Conclusion: writing literature to heal, shape, reform
Appendix: posthumous recognition and criticism in the USSR and abroad
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.
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