BOOKS - HISTORY - Plotting History The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
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Plotting History The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
Author: Dan Ungurianu
Year: 2007
Number of pages: 349
Format: PDF
File size: 12.5 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2007
Number of pages: 349
Format: PDF
File size: 12.5 MB
Language: ENG
Balanced precariously between fact and fiction, the historical novel is often viewed with suspicion. Some have attacked it as a mongrel form, a “bastard son” born of “history’s flagrant adultery with imagination.” Yet it includes some of the most celebrated achievements of Russian literature, with Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and scores of other writers contributing to this tradition.