Böcker av Susanne Fusso

Some of the greatest works of Russian prose first saw the light in the Russian Herald, the journal founded and edited by Mikhail Katkov: Fathers and Sons, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. Yet because of his conservative politics and his intrusive editing practices, Katkov has been either ignored or demonized by scholars both in Russia and in the West; in contemporary Russia he has been hailed as the "savior of the fatherland" because of his aggressive Russian nationalism. This book studies Katkov's literary career without vilification or canonization, focusing on the ways in which his nationalism fueled his drive to create the canon of Russian literature as a recognized part of world literature.

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. These are a few of the great works of Russian prose that first appeared in the Russian Herald, a journal founded and edited by Mikhail Katkov. Yet because of his conservative politics and intrusive editing practices, Katkov has been either ignored or...

This original work presents an integral and inclusive explanatory model for the elusive narrative strategies of Gogol's "Dead Souls": in the process, it draws larger conclusions about Gogol's creative methods and aesthetic concerns.

Gives us a way of understanding a critical element in the writing of one of Russia's literary masters. The author explores his artistic treatment of how children and adolescents discover sexuality as part of their growth. She considers his search for a language for sexuality, and his approach to a young man's sexual development in "A Raw Youth".