Russian Silhouettes
Russian Silhouettes

Author: Genna Sosonko

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9056914855

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As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. Combining an insider's nostalgia with the detachment of a critical observer, he has produced unforgettable portraits of the heroes of this bygone era: Tal, Botvinnik, Geller, Polugaevsky, and the legendary trainer Zak are some of his subjects. This New Editon has two brand new stories. Delightful —The Washington Post.

Russian Silhouettes: More Stories of Russian Life
Russian Silhouettes: More Stories of Russian Life

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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The famous Russian writer and dramatist wrote this collection of stories in 1915. They are divided into three sections: stories of childhood; stories of youth; light and shadow.

Russian Silhouettes
Russian Silhouettes

Author: Genna Sosonko

Publisher: New In Chess,Csi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789056912932

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As a respected trainer who became a world-class chess grandmaster after leaving Leningrad and moving to Holland in 1972, Genna Sosonko observes the golden age Soviet chess from a privileged dual perspective. Combining an insider's nostalgia with the detachment of a critical observer, he has produced unforgettable portraits of the heroes of this bygone era: Tal, Botvinnik, Geller, Polugaevsky, and the legendary trainer Zak are some of his subjects. This New Editon has two brand new stories. Delightful --The Washington Post.

Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story
Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

Author: Jeff Birkenstein

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-03-10

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1793629897

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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.

Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers

Author: Darya Protopopova

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1527527824

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Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer. The book also examines British modernists’ fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry’s articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf’s essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.