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There are 16 critical essays on Boris Pilnyak.
Critical Essays on Boris Pilnyak
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Critical Essay by Vera T. Reck
13,002 words, approx. 43 pages
 In the following essay from her full-length study, Reck examines the controversy surrounding the creation and publication of Pilnyak's most renowned works.
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Critical Essay by Gary Browning
10,369 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following excerpt, Browning provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of several short stories by Pilnyak.
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Critical Essay by Carol Avins
6,541 words, approx. 22 pages
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 works.”
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Critical Essay by Carol Avins
5,749 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Avins considers Pilnyak's contrast of Russia and Europe in his story “The Third Capital.”
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Critical Essay by Marc Slonim
2,750 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Slonim discusses Pilnyak's political beliefs and how they were expressed in his fiction.
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Critical Essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman
2,377 words, approx. 8 pages
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 rich life, a master of the full range of comic rhetoric, and a unique poetic voice in fiction.”
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Critical Essay by Vera T. Reck
1,637 words, approx. 6 pages
In the essay below, Reck discusses Pilnyak's novelette Mahogany and the criticism it generated.
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Critical Review by Joseph Wood Krutch
1,051 words, approx. 4 pages
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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Critical Review by Luis H. Francia
891 words, approx. 3 pages
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 enough to let a certain amount of disorder flourish.”
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Critical Review by Frank Day
538 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following essay, Day offers a favorable review of Chinese Story and Other Tales.
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