Introduction
Philip Cavendish
From Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus' (2000), pp. 1-8, doi:10.59860/td.c7cfdee
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| Part of the book: Mining for Jewels Philip Cavendish MHRA Texts and Dissertations 51 Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Alex M. Shane wrote his ground-breaking study of Zamiatin more than thirty years after his death; since then, another thirty years have passed. During this period a great deal has changed in our under- standing of this writer. His status as a key figure in the development of modern Russian literature, a status long accepted in the West, but vigorously resisted for almost six decades by the Soviet cultural establishment, is no longer a source of dispute. The situation could not be better for those interested in his achievement. His previously banned works of fiction have now been published, many for the first time since 1929, and his stories are part of the school syllabus. Despite the cornucopia of material which has accumulated over the decades since the appearance of Shane's study, it is striking nevertheless how relatively one-sided and narrow the focus of attention has been. 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: |
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