Iurii Kazakov revived and strengthened, even during the post-Stalin period of the Thaw, the bonds between contemporary literature and the tradition of classical realism. In his prose the Russian reali...
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In the following excerpt, Alexandrova provides a brief overview of Kazakov's work and surveys the critical reception to his short fiction.
One section of Konstantin Paustovsky's article ...
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In the following essay, Kornilova outlines the defining characteristics of the stories comprising An Easy Life.
Yuri Kazakov's stories are about ordinary things and ordinary people. There is no...
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In the following laudatory review of Going to Town, Wasiolek maintains that “Kazakov expresses eloquently the mute gestures that speak of the heart's wild hopes and its quiet pains. ...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1964 as the introduction to Selected Short Stories, Gibian surveys the defining characteristics of Kazakov's fiction and praises their novelty an...
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In the following review, originally published in The New York Review of Books in 1964, Muchnic offers a positive assessment of Going to Town and discusses Kazakov's place in Soviet literature.
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In the following essay, Kramer analyzes the major thematic concern of Kazakov's short fiction—the theme of isolation.
No recent Soviet writer has so concentrated his creative energies on...
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In the following essay, Collins considers the themes of nature and isolation in several of Kazakov's stories.
Both Soviet and Western critics have noted (although not explored) the influence of...
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In the following excerpt, Brown provides a thematic and stylistic overview of Kazakov's short fiction.
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The short stories of Yuri Kazakov, possibly the best that were written in Russia in ...
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In the following essay, Pursglove provides a brief overview of Kazakov's short fiction, describing it as “allusive, ambiguous, and open-ended,” the opposite of much Stalinist pros...
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Iurii Pavlovich Kazakov
