Chapaev and his comrades : war and the Russian literacy hero across the twentieth century / Angela Brintlinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brintlinger, Angela.

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Cultural revolutions.

Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

War stories, Russian--History and criticism.

War stories, Russian.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across the twentieth century, the Russian literary hero remained central to Russian fiction and frequently "battled" one enemy or another, whether on the battlefield or on a civilian front. War was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet experience in literature as well as other areas of cultural life. This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Astafiev, Viktor Pelevin, and Vasily Aksyonov. These authors represented official Soviet literature and underground or dissident literature; they fell into and out of favor, were exiled and returned to Russia, died at home and abroad. Most importantly, they were all touched by war, and they reacted to the state of war in their literary works.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. CREATING HEROES FROM CHAOS

Chapter One. Born in the Crucible of War Chapaev and His Socialist Realist Comrades

Part II. WORLD WAR II AND THE HERO

Chapter Two. The Peasant-Soldier: Alexander Tvardovsky and a New Chapaev

Chapter Three. Eyewitnesses to Heroism: Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova

Chapter Four. Retreat: Viktor Nekrasov and the Truth of the Trenches

Part III. COLD WAR REPERCUSSIONS

Chapter Five. From World War to Cold War: Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and Heroism in the Post-Stalin Period

Chapter Six. Antiheroes in a Post-heroic Age: Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, and Cold War Malaise

Part IV. Chapaev and War: Russian Redux

Chapter Seven. Revisiting War: Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24

Chapter Eight. Revisiting Chapaev: Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov

Afterword

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-[277]) and index.

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ISBN:

9781618116932

1618116932

9781618112033

1618112031

OCLC:

1135591785