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Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral
196Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781618119735 |
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Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
Publication date: | 05/20/2019 |
Series: | Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century |
Pages: | 196 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Ainsley Morse is a teacher, translator, and scholar of Slavic languages and literatures, primarily Russian. She currently teaches at Pomona College.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Soviet PastoralA Note on Names
PART I
Chapter One
Chapter Three
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
PART II
Chapter Seven
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Eighteen
PART III
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Forty
Notes
Egunov Bibliography
What People are Saying About This
“The arrival of Andrei Egunov’s prose into the realm of
English language once again signifies that the introduction of Russian Modernism to the Western reader is far from complete. Here he comesfanciful, poignant,
endlessly eruditebut most importantlyin fierce resistance to Soviet history with its maniacal desire for the uniformity. Speaking from the margins of the
Soviet century, in many exotic tongues (after all, he was one of the most exquisite Classicists of his time), Egunov brings to us yet another completely unexpected, original version of High Modernismfresh, original, breathing with freedom and loneliness.” Polina Barskova, Associate Professor of Russian
Literature, Hampshire College