Waiting for Pushkin
Subtitle: Russian Fiction in the Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825) (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 44) (Studies in Slavic Literature & Poetics)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Published: March 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9789042018297
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russian & Former Soviet Union
First sentence: For the past two centuries literature has played a particularly important role in Russian society, acting as the vehicle by which fundamental ideal, moral and social issues have been addressed.