Chapter I: The Literary and Social Context
David Gillespie
From Valentin Rasputin and Soviet Russian Village Prose (1986), pp. 1-12, doi:10.59860/td.c694ede
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| Part of the book: Valentin Rasputin and Soviet Russian Village Prose David C. Gillespie MHRA Texts and Dissertations 22 Modern Humanities Research Association ContemporaryRussianFictionopen Abstract. Valentin Rasputin is regarded both in the Soviet Union and abroad as a writer with a keen interest in the social and psychological drama of crisis and change. He is one of the foremost literary figures in the Soviet Union, and, still relatively young, offers much for the future. This is especially so given his recent return to literary production following a prolonged silence and serious injury. Indeed, the time would seem right for an appraisal of his literary career to date, the four major povesti and handful of short stories on which his almost universal acclaim is based. As a writer with many thematic links and affinities with the 'village prose' movement in modern Soviet Russian literature, Rasputin must be viewed not in isolation, but as a representative, and perhaps even the best, of the social and cultural conscience of his generation. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |