Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th.
The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and... Læs mere
Katerina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet Union,... Læs mere