A Graveyard of Themes
A Graveyard of Themes

Author: Kazimiera Ingdahl

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Published: 1994

Total Pages: 184

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" ... Examines three key works of the Russian writer Iurii Olesha: Envy (1927), The cherry pit (1929), and A strict youth (1934) ... Investigates the connection between the genesis of these works and the author's biography. Included in the book is an appendix containing a selection of mostly unpublished first-page drafts of Envy and variants of The cherry pit"--Title page verso.

Beyond the Noise of Time
Beyond the Noise of Time

Author: Karin Grelz

Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell International

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 202

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"This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva's work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet's prose in general. The present study examines Marina Tsvetaeva's memories of childhood in the context of her work and in the context of the cultural and political reality to which these reminiscences refer and in which they were written - i.e., Russia around the turn of the century and the Russian emigre world of 1930-1937. The study also touches upon the symbolic and allegorical dimension of the texts - Tsvetaeva's ""otherspeak"" in her prose. It is shown that the central scenes of these texts author's narrative of childhood also appears to have been a suitable medium for articulating controversial aesthetic statements and taking a stand for a historical past and literary tradition that at the time seemed doomed to oblivion."