Canadian Slavonic Papers, December 1st, 2001
Catriona Kelly. Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii, 165 pp. Illustrations. Maps. $8.95, cloth.
Catriona Kelly suggests her book is neither a canonical outline of the lives and creative legacies of Russian writers, nor a sketch of literary movements and cultural traditions. Instead, it presents both classical and contemporary Russian literature through the prism of Alexander Pushkin's writing, which covers a vast range of cultural themes and subjects, and represents an impressive variety of poetic, prose and dramatic genres. Rather than analysing...
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