| A Window on Russia: For the Use of Foreign Readers Contributor(s): Wilson, Edmund (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374511411 ISBN-13: 9780374511418 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1974 Annotation: "A Window on Russia "is a collection of Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 891.7 |
| LCCN: 70183236 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.07" W x 8.05" (0.76 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Window on Russia is a collection of Edmund Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language (which he taught himself to read), written between 1943 and 1971. Writers discussed include Pushkin, Gogol, Chekov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, among others. In A Window on Russia, which Wilson modestly calls 'a handful of disconnected pieces, written at various times when I happened to be interested in the various authors, ' we encounter that rare pleasure of entering a living world where the dead hand of academia never casts its shadow. - Kirkus Reviews |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Edmund: - Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. |