Contemporary Russian Novelists
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Contemporary Russian Novelists is a book by Serge Persky. The preface says the principal aim of this book is to give the reader a good general knowledge of Russian literature as it is to-day. The preface says Serge Persky has subordinated purely critical material because he wants his readers to form their own judgments and criticize for themselves.
The preface says the original text has a thorough and exhaustive treatment of the "great prophet" of Russian literature, Tolstoy, but that the translator has deemed it wise to omit this essay. A discussion of a work called Twenty-Six Men and a Girl describes it as a little masterpiece in which we see twenty-six bakers pouring out an ideal and mystical love on Tanya, the little embroiderer. The text says Gorky is the continuator of the work of Gogol by popular humor, which it finds especially noticeable in The Fair at Goltva.
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- Author
- Serge Persky
- Pages
- 142
- Language
- English
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