The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: David M. Bethea
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Suicide, Literature, Social issues, Doctors, Antichrist figures, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Capitalism, End of the world, Russia or Russian people, Signs or symbols
David M. Bethea has written the only work that demonstrates the impact of apocalyptic thinking on the major Russian novels written in the decades before and after the Soviet Revolution of 1917. Of the five novels Bethea examines, two were written before the Revolution: Fyodor Dostoevski’s Idiot (1868; The Idiot, 1887) and Andrey Bely’s Peterburg (1913; Petersburg, 1978). The publishing history of the three novels written after the Revolution reflects the repressive nature of Stalinism. Andrey Platonov’s Chevengur was completed in 1929 but not...
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