Faithful Ruslan
Title | Faithful Ruslan PDF eBook |
Author | Georgi Vladimov |
Publisher | Melville House |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 161219009X |
Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian) Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de coeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power. “Every writer who writes anything in this country is made to feel he has committed a crime,” Georgi Vladimov said. Dissident, he said, is a word that “they force on you.” His mother, a victim of Stalin’s anti-Semitic policy, had been interred for two years in one of the camps from which Vladimov derived the wrenching detail of Faithful Ruslan. The novel circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, before its publication in the West led to Vladimov’s harassment and exile. A starving stray, tortured and abandoned by the godlike “Master” whom he has unconditionally loved, Ruslan and his cadre of fellow guard dogs dutifully wait for the arrival of new prisoners—but the unexpected arrival of a work party provokes a climactic bloodletting. Fashioned from the perceptions of an uncomprehending animal, Vladimov’s insistently ironic indictment of the gulag spirals to encompass all of Man’s inexplicable cruelty.
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
Title | The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2003-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780142437575 |
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Faithful Ruslan
Title | Faithful Ruslan PDF eBook |
Author | Георгий Владимов |
Publisher | New York : Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A guard dog in a Soviet Gulag attempts to survive with his dignity after he is no longer needed by the state.
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Title | Reference Guide to Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Cornwell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1020 |
Release | 2013-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134260776 |
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Faithful Ruslan
Title | Faithful Ruslan PDF eBook |
Author | Georgii Nikolaevich Vladimov |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Russian fiction |
ISBN | 9780345287861 |
Faithful Ruslan
Title | Faithful Ruslan PDF eBook |
Author | Георгий Владимов |
Publisher | New York : Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A guard dog in a Soviet Gulag attempts to survive with his dignity after he is no longer needed by the state.
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Title | Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Albert Bédé |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 932 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231037174 |
With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.