The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov
by
Michael C. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Readers have been schooled to see nineteenth-century Russian literature as the summit of social and psychological realism. But in the work of writers from Pushkin to Chekhov, Michael C. Finke discloses a pervasive self-referentiality, a running commentary on the literary conventions these texts seem...