The art of compromise : the life and work of Leonid Leonov / Boris Thomson.

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Thomson, Boris

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9781442680500
1442680504
1282014471
9781282014473
9786612014475
6612014474

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art of compromise.DDC classification:

891.73/42 21

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PG3476.L5 Z92 2001

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18.53

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Contents:

1 Early Years and Literary Debut 3 -- 2 Badgers 1924 32 -- 3 Thief 1927 52 -- 4 Stories and Plays 1927-1928 78 -- 5 Sot' and Locusts 1930-1931 99 -- 6 Skutarevsky 1932 125 -- 7 Road to Ocean 1935 149 -- 8 Three Plays 1936-1940 173 -- 9 War Years 1941-1945 191 -- 10 An Ordinary Man and A Golden Coach 1940-1946 203 -- 11 Russian Forest 1953 215 -- 12 Late Revisions 1955-1962 239 -- 13 Pyramid 1994 265 -- 14 Art of Compromise 285 -- Appendix Zapis'na bereste 295.

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Summary: Although the Russian novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov had published extensively before 1917 he considered that his literary career began only in 1922 with the short story Buryga. His talent developed rapidly in the comparatively free cultural climate of the first decade of the Revolution and by 1927 his characteristic style and themes were already formed. It was in this year, however, that the Communist Party began to impose its demands on the artists and intellectuals. Leonov's beliefs and values were incompatible with the Soviet version of Marxism but he tried to affirm them indirectly in his work through structure, imagery and allusion, while outwardly conforming to official demands. This manoeuvring inevitably led him into some questionable compromises which in turn damaged his reputation, both at home and abroad. Leonov himself was painfully conscious of the moral dilemmas involved and his later works return again and again to the question: is it possible to compromise without being compromised?There are fourteen chapters in the volume, each devoted to one or more of Leonov's works, setting the successive stages of his evolution against a background of changing cultural and political policies.

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Although the Russian novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov had published extensively before 1917 he considered that his literary career began only in 1922 with the short story Buryga. His talent developed rapidly in the comparatively free cultural climate of the first decade of the Revolution and by 1927 his characteristic style and themes were already formed. It was in this year, however, that the Communist Party began to impose its demands on the artists and intellectuals. Leonov's beliefs and values were incompatible with the Soviet version of Marxism but he tried to affirm them indirectly in his work through structure, imagery and allusion, while outwardly conforming to official demands. This manoeuvring inevitably led him into some questionable compromises which in turn damaged his reputation, both at home and abroad. Leonov himself was painfully conscious of the moral dilemmas involved and his later works return again and again to the question: is it possible to compromise without being compromised?There are fourteen chapters in the volume, each devoted to one or more of Leonov's works, setting the successive stages of his evolution against a background of changing cultural and political policies.

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