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	An Anthology Of Russian Literature From Earliest Writings To Modern Fiction: Introduction To A Culture M.E. Sharpe, 2004 - 587 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to engage it? This pathbreaking classroom reader was designed to respond to that challenge. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historical themes of Russian civilization. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theater, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography, and Kandinsky's paintings. They are supported by introductions, helpful annotations, bibliographies of resources, and a companion multimedia CD that brings the anthology's cultural references to life. Intended for courses in Russian literature, Russian culture and civilization, and comparative literature, the anthology; introduces Russian literature from the Igor Tale to village prose; integrates literature into the larger fabric of history, culture, and the arts; presents both new and classic translations, with helpful annotations; elucidates historical and cultural contexts and thematic continuities and variations; features useful resource guides to related works in all media; includes an interactive multimedia CD with a background narrative, historical and biographical information, and vivid excerpts from "great performances" of Russian film, music, dance, theater, and graphic arts

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Excellent for all Literature Lovers!

This book is an excellent compilation of some of the greatest writers Russia has ever produced. On these pages we find literature by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenyev, Lermentov, Tolstoy, Blok, Babel, Kharms, Bulgakov and many others, as well as a few anonymous authors. There are stories, plays and poems in this anthology, giving the reader a fine selection of the rich variety of literature that Russia had contributed to the world. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in literature (especially, but not limited to Russian literature) and I believe the reader will appreciate this book's true creativity.

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Great anthology!

This book provides an deeper insight into Russian literature and it's culture. Mr. Rzhevsky has done this by writing an introduction to each period in the history of Russian literature and showing us how all these works have resonated in Russian culture like music, theatre, cinema etc. So find out why Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov' and Mussorgsky's opera interpretation of it have had a great impact especially in times of moral instability and the collapse of values and historical insecurity of the Gorbachov era or why Nikolai Gogol was misunderstood by many of his readers.
This was exactly the book I was looking for and it is an great introduction to an very interesting culture and its literature.

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very good compilation

I really like this anthology. This book contains many of the greatest works in Russian literature, from the first stories to be recorded to modern literature. To have Pushkin, Gogol, Kharms, and Tsvetaeva in the same anthology provides a wide range of literary styles and ideas. Also, the translations are some of the best available, and Rzhevsky's analysis is very comprehensive.

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