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Boris Pil'niak preferred the genres of short story, novel, and travel sketch. Beginning with World War I, he wrote during a fateful period in Russian history that included the 1917 Bolshevik Revolutio...
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In the following unfavorable assessment of Tales of the Wilderness, Krutch maintains that Pilnyak's stories “are singularly barren of either intellectual or emotional content.”
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In the following essay, Edward traces the theme of the irrational in Pilnyak's fiction.
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The examination of a specific theme in the work of several writers calls for an approach which should b...
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In the following essay, Avins considers Pilnyak's contrast of Russia and Europe in his story “The Third Capital.”
The two basic terms in the political formulas of the day, “...
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In the following excerpt, Browning provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of several short stories by Pilnyak.
In general, Pilniak wrote rapidly and prolifically. His mind and pen raced from work ...
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In the following essay, Lewis provides a favorable review of Chinese Story and Other Tales.
The style of Boris Pilnyak's fiction has been described as disorderly and emotional but appropriate f...
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In the following review, Laird offers a mixed assessment of Chinese Story and Other Tales.
With the exception of one charming early tale, “A Year of Their Life,” all the stories in this ...
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In the following essay, Day offers a favorable review of Chinese Story and Other Tales.
In Mother Earth, Pilnyak's loving testimonial short story of Russia's “fields, forests, swa...
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In the following positive review of Chinese Story and Other Tales, Francia maintains that “underneath the seemingly rambling passages is a passionate, inquisitive intelligence, gifted and large...
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In the following excerpt, Capitanchik offers a mixed assessment of Mother Earth and Other Stories.
‘Human kind,’ wrote Eliot, ‘cannot bear very much reality’. One of the mo...
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In the following essay, Frankel elucidates the moral of Pilnyak's Tale of the Unextinguished Moon.
Boris Pilnyak's Tale of the Unextinguished Moon is usually summed up, briefly or in som...
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In the following essay from her full-length study, Reck examines the controversy surrounding the creation and publication of Pilnyak's most renowned works.
An ear cocked for the rumours, an eye...
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In the essay below, Reck discusses Pilnyak's novelette Mahogany and the criticism it generated.
In a report on the literary “war” in Moscow, Walter Duranty informed the readers of...
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In the following essay, Hyman provides a positive review of Pilnyak's short fiction, asserting that “at his best, Boris Pilnyak was a matchless captor of the historical moment in all its...
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In the following essay, Slonim discusses Pilnyak's political beliefs and how they were expressed in his fiction.
Chronologically, the first significant panorama of the Great Upheaval was presen...
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In the following essay, Avins contends that “The Third Capital” is important “for its extended treatment of the contrast between Europe and Russia present in a number of his other...
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In the following essay, Falchikov explores the roles of time and memory in Pilnyak's Mahogany.
At the end of the fourth chapter of his five-chapter novella Krasnoye derevo Pil'nyak comes...
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Boris Andreyevich Vogau
Critical Review by Joseph Wood Krutch
