The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader
By: edited, with an introduction and notes, by Clarence Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Clarence, 1929-
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Series: Viking portable library
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Other titles: Portable 20th-century Russian reader.; Twentieth-century Russian reader.; 20th-century Russian reader.
Description: For most of the twentieth century Russia existed under some form of dictatorship--with the paradoxical effect that in Russia literature continued to matter as it did in few other countries. The writers of modern Russia have possessed the power to enrage tyrants, to inspire allegiance and devotion in their readers, and to speak for the suffocating conscience of their motherland, even when they are addressing the least political of issues. At their best, their writing is informed by the exhilarated awareness of that potential--and the responsibility that goes with it.