Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet write by British Library. This book was released on 2013-02-07. Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet
Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet write by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company. This book was released on 1986. Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How the Russians Read the French
How the Russians Read the French - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Russians Read the French write by Priscilla Meyer. This book was released on 2010-05-27. How the Russians Read the French available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves self-consciously through Western European eyes, at once admiring Europe and feeling inferior to it. This ambivalence was perhaps most keenly felt in relation to France, whose language and culture had shaped the world of the Russian aristocracy from the time of Catherine the Great. In How the Russians Read the French, Priscilla Meyer shows how Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy engaged with French literature and culture to define their own positions as Russian writers with specifically Russian aesthetic and moral values. Rejecting French sensationalism and what they perceived as a lack of spirituality among Westerners, these three writers attempted to create moral and philosophical works of art that drew on sources deemed more acceptable to a Russian worldview, particularly Pushkin and the Gospels. Through close readings of A Hero of Our Time, Crime and Punishment, and Anna Karenina, Meyer argues that each of these great Russian authors takes the French tradition as a thesis, proposes his own antithesis, and creates in his novel a synthesis meant to foster a genuinely Russian national tradition, free from imitation of Western models. Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Dreams of My Russian Summers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of My Russian Summers write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2011-05-15. Dreams of My Russian Summers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
Le Testament Francais
Le Testament Francais - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Le Testament Francais write by Andreï Makine. This book was released on 2009-12-07. Le Testament Francais available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in 1910, of Proust playing tennis in Neuilly and the President dying in the arms of his mistress, of avenues lined with chestnut trees and elegant cafes. Charlotte’s vision of a paradise lost, though, is overlaid by her subsequent experience. As her grandson grows older, he learns how this remarkable woman survived the Russian revolution’s aftermath, Stalin’s purges and the horrors of the Second World War, gaining from her a portrait of the country drawn with an outsider’s eye. Yet for all the monstrosities of his native land, he realises he is proud to be Russian. Torn between two cultures, as an adolescent he turns his back on all things French. Then in his twenties he abandons the Soviet Union and eventually reaches Paris – where a startling revelation awaits him. This luminous, haunting novel traces a sentimental and intellectual journey that embraces the dramatic history of this century.
