Andrei Bitov
The Ecology of Inspiration
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Author: Ellen Chances, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: March 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025270
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This is the first book on Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers. It plots his evolution from his early publications of the post-Stalin years to his mature masterpieces of the glasnost era. Ellen Chances assesses his place both in the Russian literary tradition from Pushkin onwards, and as part of a broader, international cultural heritage including Dickens, Fellini, and Proust. She explores his themes, from the psychological effects of Stalin on Soviet society to universal questions such as the human being's relationship with nature, history and culture, and discovers in his deeply philosophical and intensely psychological writings an innovative methodology, 'ecological prose', that goes beyond modernist and post-modernist fragmentation in search of the wholeness of life.
Read more- This is the first book in any language about one of the most original writers currently active in Russia
- Pushkin House has been translated into several languages, including English and French; several more works due to appear in English soon
- Bitov was on the Booker Prize jury in 1992; Ellen Chances knows him personally and has had his co-operation in this project
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'A brilliant analysis of one of the most difficult contemporary Russia n writers, one about whom many Soviet literary critics have gnashed their teeth. Ellen Chances' work is distinguished by a spirit of independence and by a genuine depth - qualities that link her writing with that of Bitov himself.' Natalia Ivanova, Moscow literary critic and deputy editor of the literary journal Znamia
See more reviews'A fine, impressive work … a very intelligent and sensitive analysis.' George Gibian, Cornell University
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- Date Published: March 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025270
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 218 x 141 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.459kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Andrei Bitov's ecological prose
2. The Big Balloon: terrestrial and celestial spheres
3. Such a long Childhood: growing pains
4. Dacha District: automatic pilot living and creative living
5. Apothecary Island: 'I-lands' of existence
6. Image of Life: life and images of life
7. Seven Journeys: journeys to the other and journey to the self
8. The Days of Man: roles and themes
9. Metropol: Bitov's stories about Life and Death
10. Sunday: more 'I-lands' and journeys
11. Pushkin House: the riddles of life and literature
12. Bitov's post-Pushkin House prose, or life in the images of life
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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