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Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral

Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral

Egunov-Nikolev, Andrei
Morse, Ainsley

Paperback

Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1618119737
ISBN13: 9781618119735
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet production prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an industrializing rural proletariat, this Soviet pastoral actually appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called light genres--Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder.

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