Free Download Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov "
English | ISBN: 0810142481 | 2020 | 248 pages | PDF | 979 KB
Russia's Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution. During Russia's first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of literary form for writers trying to make sense of economic change. The new environments created by industry, such as giant factories and mills, demanded some kind of response from writers but defied all existing forms of language.