Bruno Jasienski : his evolution from futurism to socialist realism / Nina Kolesnikoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolesnikoff, Nina, 1943-

Series:

Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature ; v. 6.

Bibliotheque de la Revue canadienne de litterature comparee = Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jasieński, Bruno, 1901-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Jasieński, Bruno.

Polish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bruno Jasieński was a bilingual Polish-Russian writer who died in exile in Siberia in 1939. This volume traces his literary evolution. The introductory biographical sketch is followed by a discussion of Jasieński's contribution to Polish poetry, specifically the Futurist movement which, like its parallels in Russia and Italy, revolutionized poetic language. An analysis and evaluation of Jasieński's prose work sheds light on the relationship between politics and literature in early twentieth-century Poland and Russia. Most of Jasieński's novels and short stories were written in the approved Soviet tradition of Socialist Realism. His Man Changes His Skin is considered one of the best Soviet industrial novels of the 1930s. The author's comprehensive and skillful treatment of Jasieński's literary production, the first to appear in English, also makes a valuable contribution to the knowledge of Futurism in Eastern Europe and Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. The volume contains numerous "ations from Polish and Russian literature, both in English translation (prepared by the author) and in the original. It will be of interest to students of Slavic literature, comparative literature, and the literature of ideology.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Biographical Sketch

Polish Futurism: Its Origin and Aesthetic Programme

The Poetry of Bruno Jasieński and the Futurist Quest to Renovate Poetic Language

The Lay of jakub Szela and Folklore

I Burn Paris—A Utopian Novel

Bruno Jasieński and Soviet Literary Life 1929-1934

Man Changes His Skin and the Industrial Novel

Socialist Realism in "Bravery" and A Conspiracy of the Indifferent

Grotesque Elements in The Ball of the Mannequins and "The Nose"

Conclusion

A Selection of Bruno Jasieński's Poetry with Prose Translation of Each Poem

A Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)- University of Alberta, 1975.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9786613810007

9781554585120

1554585120

9781282166936

128216693X

9780889207417

0889207410

OCLC:

243579035