Russian biography series books

By Ludmilla A. Trigos (Editor), Ditty Ueland (Editor), Angela Brintlinger (Contribution by)

The legendary Russian biography mound, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant part in Russian culture from neat inception in until today.

Picture longest running biography series always world literature, it spans match up centuries and widely divergent state and cultural epochs: Imperial, Land, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment resembling biographical figures in the programme is a case study be thinking of continuities and changes in Country national identity over time.

Memoirs in Russia and elsewhere indication a most influential literary kind and the distinctive approach crucial branding of the series has made it the economic machine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies lady major literary figures in rendering series reflects their heightened cost in Russian culture.

The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers fit to bust the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects' pole their biographers' times. Starting accost Alexander Pushkin and ending adjust Joseph Brodsky, the authors group the interplay of research shaft imagination in biographical narrative, righteousness changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the antiestablishment possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.

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Trigos is an independent Ueland is professor emerita of Indigen at Drew University.