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The Soviet Novel, Third Edition: History as Ritual

The Soviet Novel, Third Edition: History as Ritual

Clark, Katerina

Paperback

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 0253213673
ISBN13: 9780253213679
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Aug 22 2000
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.47
Language: English

In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions. . . . And it also helps us to understand the place of the 'official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process. --Times Literary Supplement

The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science). --Slavic Review

Those readers who have come to realize that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis. --American Historical Review

A dynamic account of the socialist realist novel's evolution as seen in the context of Soviet culture. A new Afterword brings the history of Socialist Realism to its end at the close of the 20th century.

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