Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The literary situation: publication, genres, criticism
- 2 From “stagnation” to “openness”
- 3 Retrospective writing about the Stalin period
- 4 Village prose: its peak and decline
- 5 The “forty-year-olds”
- 6 Other voices
- 7 “Tough” and “cruel” prose
- 8 New faces
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- English translations of Soviet Russian prose
- Index
English translations of Soviet Russian prose
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The literary situation: publication, genres, criticism
- 2 From “stagnation” to “openness”
- 3 Retrospective writing about the Stalin period
- 4 Village prose: its peak and decline
- 5 The “forty-year-olds”
- 6 Other voices
- 7 “Tough” and “cruel” prose
- 8 New faces
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- English translations of Soviet Russian prose
- Index
Summary
ANTHOLOGIES
Chukhontsev, Oleg, ed., Leopard I: Dissonant Voices; The New Russian Fiction, London, Harvill, 1991.
Decter, Jacqueline, ed., The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories. Compiled by Sergei Zalygin. New York, Abbeville Press, 1989.
Soviet Women Writing: Fifteen Short Stories, New York, Abbeville Press, 1990.
Goscilo, Helena, ed., Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1989.
Goscilo, Helena, and Lindsey, Byron, eds., Glasnost: An Anthology of Literature Under Gorbachev, Ann Arbor, Ardis Publishers, 1990.
The Wild Beach: An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Stories, Ann Arbor, Ardis Publishers, 1992.
The Human Experience: Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry. Edited by the Soviet/American Joint Editorial Board of the Quaker US/USSR Committee. New York and Moscow, Knopf and Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1989.
McLaughlin, Sigrid, ed. and tr., The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction: Selected Stories from the USSR, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Metropol. Literary Almanac, edited by Vasily Aksenov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, Yevgeny Popov, New York, Norton, 1982.
Proffer, Carl and Ellendea, eds., The Barsukov Triangle, The Two-Toned Blond and Other Stories, Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1984.
INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Many works of the following authors appear in the anthologies listed above. They will be identified by abbreviated titles of these anthologies.
Abramov, Fyodor, Two Winters and Three Summers, tr. D. B. Powers and Doris C. Powers, Ann Arbor, Ardis Publishers, 1984. Also tr. Jacqueline Edwards and Mitchell Schneider, San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
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- The Last Years of Soviet Russian LiteratureProse Fiction 1975–1991, pp. 196 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993