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Chekhov: The Essential Playsby Michael Heim; Anton Chekhov
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 4.99Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Worksby Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen; Caryl Emerson
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 8.95James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. - ;'The people are silent'. So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations... more...
Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramasby Timothy C. Westphalen
Routledge 2002; US$ 120.00Aleksandr Blok gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksnadr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. more...
Turgenev and the Context of English Literature 1850-1900by Glyn Turton
Routledge 1992; US$ 150.00Examines the cultural outlook in the Anglo-Saxon world, in this period, through an analysis of the reception of Turgenev's work in translation in a number of writers including Henry James and George Gissing. more...
Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russiannessby Sarah Hudspith
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 175.00This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism", and his views on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he considered to be innately Russian. more...
Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatreby Vera Gottlieb
Routledge 2004; US$ 130.00Moscow Art Theatre is recognized as having more impact on modern theatre, than any other company. This facsimile edition of a Russian journal documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the MAT. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskiiby W. J. Leatherbarrow
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of Dostoevskii's life and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students. more...
Bulgakovby Lesley Milne
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 90.00Today, in his native Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is one of the writers whose works are most frequently read and whose plays are most frequently staged. Since the publication of his works from the 1960s onwards, he has also emerged as a major European author. Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright reflects Bulgakov's current stature. The book is a collection of 21 articles by scholars from eight different countries: Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, India, Russia, the Ukraine and the USA. In a diverse range of contributions, the authors discuss Bulgakov against the literary and theatrical background, both of his own time and in the context of today's polycentric, multicultural world. The different viewpoints present a rounded... more...
Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circleby Barbara Walker
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 31.95Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877--1932). From 1911 until his death, Voloshin led a circle in the Crimean village of Koktebel' that was a haven for such literary luminaries as Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikolai Gumilev, and Osip Mandelstam. Drawing upon the anthropological theories of Victor Turner, Walker depicts the literary circle of late Imperial Russia as a contradictory mix of idealism and "communitas," ... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokovby Julian W. Connolly
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers, covering Nabokov's style, preoccupations, and evolution as a writer and the impact of his controversial masterpiece Lolita. The volume also contains a chronology of his life and a guide to further reading. more...