Libros a Descargar Gratis

Nikolái Gógol

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 149

Una ingeniosa reflexión sobre la producción literaria a través de la obra de Nikolái Gógol que es, a su vez, una lectura iluminadora sobre los propios procesos de escritura de Nabókov. Un genio ruso del siglo XX escribe sobre un genio ruso del siglo XIX. Nabokov aborda la figura y la obra de Gógol con perspicacia y erudición. Perfila su vida, lo sitúa en el contexto de la literatura rusa y, al abordar su producción literaria, se centra sobre todo en sus tres obras maestras: El inspector, Almas muertas y El abrigo. Su conclusión es que la superlativa literatura de Gógol se sustenta no tanto en los argumentos de sus libros como en el manejo del lenguaje y la forma. Nabokov hace una lectura iluminadora de quien para él es «el más extraño poeta en prosa que jamás produjo Rusia». Y a través del análisis de los textos de su compatriota, reflexiona sobre unos planteamientos estéticos y un modo de entender la literatura que son los que él reivindica y utiliza en su propia narrativa. El Nabokov ensayista complementa y enriquece al Nabokov novelista.

La creación de Nikolai Gógol

Autor: Donald Fanger

Número de Páginas: 408

Investigacion biografica, sociologica, literaria y critica, sobre Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852) escritor ruso del siglo XlX, para armar un estudio ya considerado como el mas completo del gran escritor ruso.

Nikolai Gogol: Ukrainian Writer in the Empire

Autor: Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj

Número de Páginas: 218

Russian culture and Slavic Studies maintain that Gogol is an incontrovertible Russian writer. To call him a Ukrainian is to encounter deep skepticism. Oddly, the grounds of his "Russianness" are rarely made explicit and even less often examined critically. This book address these problems. It shows, for example, how scholars assume that language and theme make Gogol Russian. How others call him Russian by denying Ukrainians status as a separate nation, while still others avoid explanations altogether by representing him as a typical Russian in a national culture and literature. This book challenges such paradigms, situating Gogol within an "imperial culture," where Russian and Ukrainian elites shared intellectual pursuits but clashed over rival national projects. It reveals Gogol as a Ukrainian Russian-language Imperial Writer, a person who embraced an emergent Ukrainian movement while remaining a loyal imperial subject. This book will appeal to Russianists and Ukrainianists, anyone interested in questions of identity, cultural politics, and colonialism. It provides ample context and background, making it suitable for students. Readers who enjoy Taras Bulba will be drawn to the...

The Creation of Nikolai Gogol

Autor: Donald Fanger

Número de Páginas: 319

Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a literary enigma. His masterworks--"The Nose," "The Overcoat," "The Inspector General," "Dead Souls"--have attracted contradictory labels over the years, even as the originality of his achievement continues to defy exact explanation. Donald Fanger's superb new book begins by considering why this should be so, and goes onto survey what Gogol created, step by step: an extraordinary body of writing, a model for the writer in Russian society, a textual identity that eclipses his scanty biography, and a kind of fiction unique in its time. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, as well as on everything Gogol wrote, including journal articles, letters, drafts, and variants, Fanger explains Gogol's eccentric genius and makes clear how it opened the way to the great age of Russian fiction. The method is an innovative mixture of literary history and literary sociology with textual criticism and structural interrogation. What emerges is not only a framework for understanding Gogol's writing as a whole, but fresh and original interpretation of individual works. A concluding section, "The Surviving Presence," probes the fundamental...

The Works of Nikolai Gogol (Annotated with Biography)

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 1310

The works of Gogol are compiled here with a biography about his life and times. Works include: The Calash The Cloak Dead Souls The Inspector-General The Mantle A May Night Memoirs of a Madman The Mysterious Portrait The Nose St. John’s Eve The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich Taras Bulba The Viy

7 best short stories by Nikolai Gogol

Autor: Nikolai Gogol , August Nemo

Número de Páginas: 256

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the uruguayan author Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. All his work is founded on realism, but a realism of his own, with traces of what would become surrealism. Works selected for this book: - The Nose; - The Viy; - The Cloak; - Old-Fashioned Farmers; - The Overcoat; - Memoirs of a Madman; - The Mysterious Portrait. This book also contains biographical comments by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston and William Lyon Phelps. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

The Enigma of Gogol

Autor: Richard Peace

Número de Páginas: 362

Peace argues that Gogol's ambiguous humanist position stems from the cultural impact of Romanticism.

El Capote Y Otros Relatos

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 212

This book is filled with stories, each one of them speaks about the universe at the same primitive and modern time and helps us understand that craziness is the key to literary creation.

Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 2343

Noted for his inimitable use of the grotesque, the Ukrainian-born dramatist and novelist Nikolay Gogol significantly influenced the course of European literature. His novel ‘Dead Souls’ and his short story ‘The Overcoat’ are considered the foundations of the great nineteenth-century tradition of Russian realism. This eBook presents the complete fictional works of Nikolai Gogol, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gogol’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other works * The complete novels, stories and plays, with contents tables * Features many of Constance Garnett’s original translations * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Special criticism section, with five essays evaluating Gogol’s contribution to literature * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with improved...

Selected works of Nikolai Gogol: DEAD SOULS, TARAS BULBA, THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL

Autor: Nikolay Gogol

Número de Páginas: 335

Selected works of Nikolai Gogol from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works • DEAD SOULS • THE MANTLE AND OTHER STORIES • TARAS BULBA AND OTHER TALES • THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL

Nouvelles Choisies de Nicolas Gogol. Traduites du Russe par Louis Viardot

Autor: Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Número de Páginas: 0

Ce volume de nouvelles de l'auteur russe Nikolai Gogol comprend des histoires étourdissantes et inoubliables comme "Le nez" et "La cape". Les histoires se déroulent dans un univers réaliste, mais ont souvent des éléments surnaturels ou fantaisistes. Les lecteurs qui aiment les histoires courtes avec une touche de mystère et de frisson apprécieront ce livre. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Les Âmes mortes de Nicolas Gogol

Autor: Encyclopaedia Universalis

Número de Páginas: 24

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Après Le Révizor (représenté en 1836), histoire d’un quiproquo qui révèle les vices des fonctionnaires et de l’âme humaine, Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) ressentit « plus que jamais le besoin d’écrire une œuvre complète qui contînt autre chose qu’un simple sujet de rire » : ce fut Les Âmes mortes, entrepris en 1835 et écrit principalement à Paris et à Rome. Le premier tome est paru en 1842. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Les Âmes mortes de Nicolas Gogol Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l’auteur de l’œuvre. A propos de l’Encyclopaedia Universalis : Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance à la portée de tous. Écrite par plus de 7 200 auteurs spécialistes et riche de près de 30 000 médias (vidéos, photos, cartes, dessins...), l’Encyclopaedia Universalis est la plus fiable collection de référence disponible en...

La perspective Nevsky

Autor: Nicolas Gogol

Número de Páginas: 28

Il n'y a rien de mieux que la Perspective Nevski, du moins à Pétersbourg; pour lui, elle est l'alpha et l'oméga. De quoi cette rue - la belle de notre capitale - ne brille-t-elle pas ! Je sais que pas un seul de ses pâles et fonctionnaires habitants n'échangerait la Perspective Nevski pour tous les biens du monde. - Nicolas Gogol, Incipit de La Perspective Nevski.Le récit a pour décor le centre de Saint-Pétersbourg. L'intrigue se met en place autour de la perspective Nevski, rue principale et passage obligé des habitants de la capitale de l'Empire russe, dont les figures changent au gré des heures. Gogol commence par décrire la perspective à l'aube, quasi vide, qui se peuplent d'abord de nécessiteux et de mendiants, puis d'ouvriers. La rue se remplit ensuite d'écoliers et de leurs précepteurs et de gouvernantes. [...] bref, à ce moment-là, la Perspective Nevski est une Perspective Nevski pédagogique. Les occupants de la Perspective changent alors, la population devient plus mondaine. Fonctionnaires de différents ministères attentifs à leur apparence plus qu'à toute autre chose: Ici, vous rencontrerez des moustaches magnifiques, qu'aucune plume, aucun pinceau...

Gogol

Autor: Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Número de Páginas: 236

These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers.

Le Manteau - Le Nez

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 44

'Il ne se souciait aucunement de son habit; son uniforme n'était pas vert mais d'une couleur tirant vaguement sur le roux farineux. Le col en était si étroit et étriqué que son cou, bien qu'il ne l'eût point long, paraissait proprement démesuré lorsqu'il en émergeait [...]. Immanquablement, des choses se collaient à son uniforme - tantôt un brin de paille, tantôt un bout de fil, et il avait en outre l'art tout particulier, lorsqu'il était dans la rue, de passer sous une fenêtre juste au moment où l'on en déversait toutes sortes de saletés, si bien qu'il transportait perpétuellement sur son chapeau des épluchures de pastèque ou de melon et autres sornettes du même genre.' La vie d'Akaki Akakievitch, bornée à l'univers étroit de son travail au ministère, se trouve bientôt métamorphosée par un projet invraisemblable; l'acquisition d'un manteau neuf...

Petersburgo

Autor: Andréi Biely

Número de Páginas: 721

La acción de Petersburgo transcurre durante el último día de septiembre y varios días grises de octubre de 1905, entre mítines, huelgas, manifestaciones y proclamas obreras. Con el trasfondo de la primera revolución rusa, Biely escribió un relato maestro que, articulado en torno a temas como el zarismo caduco, el terrorismo y el conflicto padre-hijo, tiene a la ciudad de San Petersburgo como gran protagonista.

Marriage

Autor: Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Número de Páginas: 76

A play about a civil worker in 19th century St. Petersburg who struggles to find a bride.

Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev

Autor: Nick Worrall

Número de Páginas: 230

Nicolas Gogol - Oeuvres

Autor: Nicolas Gogol

Número de Páginas: 2268

Le Classcompilé n° 70 contient les oeuvres de Nicolas Gogol. Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol (en russe : Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Nikolaï Vassilievitch Gogol ; en ukrainien : Микола Васильович Гоголь, Mykola Vassyliovytch Hohol) est un romancier, nouvelliste, dramaturge, poète et critique littéraire russe d'origine ukrainienne, né à Sorotchintsy dans le gouvernement de Poltava (Empire russe) le 31 mars (19 mars) 1809 et mort à Moscou le 4 mars (21 février) 1852. Il est considéré comme l'un des écrivains classiques de la littérature russe. (Wikip.) Version 2 Nouveautés : Les veillées du Hameau, les âmes mortes trad. Mongault. On consultera les instructions pour mettre à jour ce volume sur le site lci-ebooks, rubrique "Mettre à jour les livres" CONTENU DE CE VOLUME NOUVELLES LES VEILLÉES DU HAMEAU 1832 MIRGOROD 1835 UN MÉNAGE D’AUTREFOIS. || MÉNAGE D’AUTREFOIS TARASS BOULBA 1835 ET 1843 LA BROUILLE DES DEUX IVAN LE ROI DESGNOMES || VIÏ NOUVELLES DE PETERSBOURG 1843 LES MÉMOIRES D’UN FOU 1835 LE NEZ 1836 LA CALÈCHE || LA CALÈCHE LE MANTEAU LE PORTRAIT 1835 ET 1842 ROME ROMANS TARASS BOULBA 1835 & 1843 LES...

Letters of Nikolai Gogol

Autor: Carl R. Proffer

Número de Páginas: 264

Les âmes mortes

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 246

Et que voulez-vous faire de cet état ? s'enquit alors Manilov.Cette question parut embarrasser le visiteur; il rougit et sembla faire effort pour chercher ses mots. De fait, il était réservé à Manilov d'entendre des choses extraordinaires, comme jamais encore oreille humaine n'en avait ouï. Vous désirez savoir ce que j'en veux faire ? Voici: je désire-acheter des paysans... prononça enfin Tchitchikov qui s'arrêta net.- Permettez-moi de vous demander, dit Manilov, comment vous désirez les acheter: avec ou sans la terre ?- Non, il ne s'agit pas précisément de paysans, répondit Tchitchikov: je voudrais avoir des morts...- Comment? Excusez... je suis un peu dur d'oreille, j'ai cru entendre un mot étrange.- J'ai l'intention d'acheter des Morts...

By Authors Possessed

Autor: Adam Weiner

Número de Páginas: 344

By Authors Possessed examines the development of the demonic in key Russian novels from the last two centuries. Defining the demonic novel as one that takes as its theme an evil presence incarnated in the protagonists and attributed to the Judeo-Christian Devil, Adam Weiner investigates the way the content of such a book can compromise the moral integrity of its narration and its sense of authorship. Weiner contends that the theme of demonism increasingly infects the narrative point of view from Gogol's Dead Souls to Dostoevsky's The Devils and Bely's Petersburg, until Nabokov exorcised the demonic novel through his fiction and his criticism. Starting from the premise that artistic creation has always been enshrouded in a haze of moral dilemma and religious doubt, Weiner's study of the demonic novel is an attempt to illuminate the potential ethical perils and aesthetic gains of great art.

Repetition and Creation

Autor: Radosvet Kolarov

Número de Páginas: 277

This book advances the notion of autotextuality, the dialogue between works in an author’s oeuvre, and the ways in which new texts are created in self-repetition through the tracing and revisiting of past texts and the subsequent uncovering of undisclosed meanings, unexhausted constructive principles, and alternative versions. Kolarov draws on cognitive models, such as dual coding theory and conceptual blending, to substantiate a theory of autotextuality and build on previous work on self-repetition and difference to highlight the notion of “discursive desire,” in which new meanings are generated through repetition, and its distinct relationship to creativity. Drawing on analyses of well-established works in Bulgarian as well as the established oeuvres of such authors as Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Baudelaire, the volume explores key themes in autotextuality such as the functions of creative memory, the connections between word and image, and the hermeneutic relationships and steps of transformation between texts. This innovative work addresses topical questions of importance in literary theory today and will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies and...

Nabokov at Cornell

Autor: Gavriel Shapiro

Número de Páginas: 322

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

Autor: O. Classe

Número de Páginas: 930

Les nouvelles de Nicolas Gogol

Autor: Nicolas Gogol

Número de Páginas: 142

Le nom de Nicolas Gogol doit s’ajouter à la liste déjà trop longue de tous les écrivains illustres de la Russie qu’un sort fatal, inévitable, frappe de mort dès qu’ils franchissent le niveau de la médiocrité, dès qu’ils appellent sur eux l’attention publique et que leur nom court de bouche en bouche. Tels sont Ryleïeff, pendu comme conspirateur en 1825 ; Pouchkine, tué à trente-huit ans, dans un duel ; Griboïedoff, assassiné à Téhéran ; Lermontoff, tué dans un duel, au Caucase, à trente ans ; Vénévitinoff, mort à vingt-deux ans, abreuvé d’outrages par la société ; Koltzoff, mort à vingt-trois ans, abreuvé de chagrins par sa famille ; Belinsky, tué à trente-cinq ans par la misère et la faim ; Dostoïevski, envoyé à vingt-deux ans, et pour toujours, aux mines de Sibérie ; enfin Gogol, mort par le suicide à quarante-trois ans. « Malheur, dit l’Écriture, aux peuples qui lapident leurs prophètes ! »

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Autor: Jeremy Tambling

Número de Páginas: 1977

This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.

Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature

Autor: Jonathan Stone

Número de Páginas: 314

The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres that have formed Russian Literature. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian literature.

Saints and Revolutionaries

Autor: Marcia A. Morris

Número de Páginas: 260

An examination of literary works spanning more than seven centuries, this volume studies the ascetic hero and asceticism, exploring the elusive interplay between religion, politics, and belles lettres in Russia. The first part places works including the thirteenth-century Kievan Crypt Patericon and Life of Avraamii Smolenskii, Epifanii's Life of Sergii Radonezhskii, and other lives written in the north of Russia, in the context of crucial religious doctrines such as apocalypticism and deification. The author shows how Old Russian literature plays a major cultural role in the continuing development of these doctrines on Russian soil. The second part traces a revival of the Russian fascination with themes of apocalypse and perfectibility to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morris also documents the development of a divergence in ideological approach between Russian writers who continued to view apocalypticism and deification as religious phenomena and those who used them as tools of social and political struggle. Works by Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Gorky, as well as classic novels of the socialist realist tradition are analyzed as evidence of the...

Essays on Gogol

Autor: Susanne Fusso , Priscilla Meyer

Número de Páginas: 310

These fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in particular, focusing on specific works, Gogol's own character, and the various approaches to aesthetic, religious, and philosophical issues raised by his writing.

Gogol's Artistry

Autor: Andrei Bely

Número de Páginas: 506

When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in Gogol’s Artistry, the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both writers. So it is in Gogol’s Artistry. Translated into English for the first time, this idiosyncratic, exhaustive critical study is as interesting for what it tells us about Bely’s thought and method as it is for its insights into the oeuvre of his literary predecessor. Bely’s argument in this book is that Gogol’s earlier writing should be given more consideration than most critics have granted. Employing what might be called a scientific perspective, Bely considers how often certain colors appear; he diagrams sentences and discusses Gogol’s prose in terms of mathematical equations. The result, as strange and engaging as Bely’s best fiction, is also an innovative, thorough, and remarkably revealing work of criticism.

In Praise of Antiheroes

Autor: Victor Brombert

Número de Páginas: 196

A book tracing the rise of the antihero in modern literature. The author defines him as someone whose courage displays our own needs and deficiencies. For example, he achieves dignity through humiliation, or suffers a reversal through his honesty.

Gogol's Afterlife

Autor: Stephen Moeller-sally

Número de Páginas: 232

The evolution of Russian authorship as exemplified by Gogol's social and aesthetic reception from 1829 to 1952.Nikolai Gogol's claim to the title of national literary classic is incontestable. Since his lifetime, every generation of Russian writers and readers has had to come to terms somehow with his ingeniously suggestive and comically virtuosic art. An exemplar for popular audiences no less than for the intelligentsia, Gogol was pressed into service under the tsarist and Soviet regimes for causes both aesthetic and political, official and unofficial. In Gogol's Afterlife, Stephen Moeller-Sally explores how he achieved this peculiar brand of cultural authority and later maintained it, despite dramatic shifts in the organization of Russian literature and society.Beginning with Gogol's debut and extending well into the twentieth century, this elegantly written and meticulously researched work offers nothing short of a sociology of modern Russian literature. Together with the history of Gogol's social and aesthetic reception, it describes the institutional evolution of Russian literature and the changing relationship of the Russian writer to nation, state, and society....

Le Journal d'un fou

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 34

Gogol, qui sombrera lui-même dans la démence, s'attache ici, une fois de plus, à la description du divorce entre une réalité quotidienne et le rêve ou la folie qui s'en nourrissent: derrière le fonctionnaire de Saint-Pétersbourg sommeille le roi d'Espagne...

Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

Autor: Nikolay Gogol

Número de Páginas: 419

Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature

Autor: Michael Y. Bennett

Número de Páginas: 803

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.

New Drama in Russian

Autor: J.a.e. Curtis

Número de Páginas: 297

How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question. New Drama, which draws heavily on techniques of documentary and verbatim writing, is a key means of protest in the Russian-speaking world; since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, theatres, dramatists, and critics have collaborated in using the genre as a lens through which to explore a wide range of topics from human rights and state oppression to sexuality and racism. Yet surprisingly little has been written on this important theatrical movement. New Drama in Russian rectifies this. Through providing analytical surveys of this outspoken transnational genre alongside case-studies of plays and interviews with playwrights, this volume sheds much-needed light on the key issues of performance, politics, and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Meticulously researched and elegantly argued, this book will be of immense value to scholars of Russian cultural history and post-Soviet literary...

The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination

Autor: Leonid Livak

Número de Páginas: 513

This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers—Christian, secular, and Jewish—based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture.

ALMAS MUERTAS - Gógol

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Número de Páginas: 589

Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol en ocasiones adaptado al español como Nicolás Gógol; (1809 - 1852) fue un escritor ruso de origen ucraniano. Cultivó varios géneros, pero fue notablemente conocido como dramaturgo, novelista y escritor de cuentos cortos. Sus obras más conocidas son, probablemente, Taras Bulba, La Nariz, El Capote y Almas muertas. Las Almas Muertas es una obra escrita por Nikolái Gógol y publicada en 1842. Gógol la definió como un poema épico en prosa. La obra tiene ciertas similitudes con El Quijote pues el protagonista Chíchikov junto con su cochero y un criado emprenden un viaje en su troika por los amplios territorios de la vasta Rusia deteniéndose en ciudades y aldeas con la intención de comprar almas, almas muertas. Gógol muestra a sus lectores una visión de un sistema en crisis social como Rusia después de la guerra de 1812. Al igual que en muchos de sus cuentos, la crítica social de Almas muertas se narra principalmente a través de la sátira hilarante.