Class Notes

RUS 402 - 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation

1.Introduction: Historical Overview

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

Bunin - Bio Bunin's Themes and Soviet Critics Bunin - The Decline of the Peasantry and Landed Gentry

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Pasternak - Bio Pasternak Poetry Pasternak Poem - "When It Clears Up" Pasternak Poem - "Soul" Pasternak Poem - "Spring" Pasternak Hamlet Dr. Zhivago: The Opening of the Novel Lara & Yuri

Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Schlotkhov

Schlotkhov - Bio Quiet Flows the Don - Soviet Critics Quiet Flows the Don - film (part 1) Quiet Flows the Don - film (part 2)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn - Bio

Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky - Bio

Summary

Russian Literature from 1900 to the Present