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Mikhail Zoshchenko : Evolution of a Writer
ISBN: 9780521114974 | 0521114977
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/25/2009
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Dr Scatton explores the critical and political reception of a complex artist in a society where the purpose of art was to serve the state. Her book sheds new light on questions of literary politics in totalitarian societies, as well as bringing English-speaking readers a taste of a most original writer.
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 ... MORE
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 ... MORE
| List of illustrations | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Note on translation and transliteration | |
| Everyone's Favorite Funny Man | |
| The artistic evolution nobody (but the artist) wanted | |
| From fame to infamy: 1921-1958 | |
| 'Straight out of Zoshchenko!': the writer as household word | |
| Deviations from Well-Trod Literary Paths | |
| The Novellas | |
| Biography and 'autobiography' | |
| Children's literature | |
| Youth Restored | |
| A Skyblue Book | |
| Before sunrise | |
| Conclusion: writing literature to heal, shape, reform | |
| Appendix: posthumous recognition and criticism in the USSR and abroad | |
| Notes | |
| Selected bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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