| Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral Contributor(s): Egunov-Nikolev, Andrei (Author), Morse, Ainsley (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1618119737 ISBN-13: 9781618119735 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Absurdist |
| Dewey: 891.734 |
| LCCN: 2018057557 |
| Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.62 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet "production" prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an industrializing rural proletariat, this "Soviet pastoral" actually appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called "light genres"--Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morse, Ainsley: - Ainsley Morse is a teacher, translator, and scholar of Slavic language and literatures, primarily Russian. She currently teaches at Pomona College. |