The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city the countryside politics satire religion psychology philosophy; the romantic realist and modernist traditions; and technique gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin Dostoevsky Tolstoy Turgenev Bulgakov Nabokov Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn among others is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.