Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Avins, Carol.

Title Border crossings : the West and Russian identity in Soviet literature, 1917-1934 / Carol Avins.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1983]
©1983

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PG3026.E95 A94 1983    Available  ---
Description xiii, 204 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Russia and the West in transition: 1. Open sea: Preserving unity with the West -- Osip Mandelstam, "Chaadaev" (1915) and "On the nature of the word" (1922) -- 2. Barbarian lyre: Challenging the West -- Aleksandr Blok, "The Scythians" (1918) -- 3. Ice and icon: Spengler in Russia -- Boris Pilniak, "The third capital" (1923) -- 4. Marxism and magic: Fantastic transitions -- Vladimir Mayakovsky, "150,000,000" (1920) -- Marietta Shaginian, Mess-mend or a Yankee in Petrograd" (1924) -- 5. Wandering toward the future: Russian and Western illusions -- Andrei Platonov, "The hurdy-gurdy (1932-35) -- pt. 2. Emigration: the single crossing: 6. Loss of home: Mikhail Bulgakov, Flight (1926-28) -- Boris Pilniak, "The old cheese" (1923) -- 7. Artist, I: Emigration and metaphor -- Viktor Shklovsky, Zoo, or Letters not about love (1923) -- 8. Artist, II: Emigration and melodrama -- Iurii Olesha, A list of assets (1931) -- pt. 3. There and back: Russian travelers and the West: 9. Unaligned traveler: Ilya Ehrenburg, Julio Jurenito (1922) -- 10. Europe imagined: Lure of the foreign -- Isaac babel, "Italian sunshine" (1924) -- 11. Writers abroad: Role of Soviet traveler -- 12. Narrowed borders: Osip Mandelstam, "Journey to Armenia" (1933) -- pt. 4. Foreign presence: 13. Defining the native: Konstantin Fedin, Cities and years (1924) -- 14. Progress and the West: Veniamin Kaverin, "Engineer shvarts" (1923) -- Andrei Platonov, "The Epifan Locks" (1927) -- Valentin Kataev, Time, forward! (1932) -- 15. Violating Russia's borders: Mikhail Bulgakov, The master and Margarita (1928-40) -- Afterword: First decades and beyond.
Subject Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Russian literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Europe -- In literature.
Europe.
United States -- In literature.
United States.
Indexed Term Russian literature, 1917-1945 - Critical studies
Subject Letterkunde.
Russisch.
ISBN 0520042336
9780520042339