A window on Russia: for the use of foreign readers /

Wilson, Edmund,

A window on Russia: for the use of foreign readers / by Edmund Wilson. - Great Britain: Macmillan, 1973. - 280 p. ; 20 cm.

Title note: Peter the Great, in Pushkin's Bronze Horseman: "Here is has been obtained for us by the Nature that we shall break a window through to Europe."

Notes from the forties.--Russian language.--Pushkin.--Tyutchev--Gogol: the demon in the overgrown garden.--Seeing Chekhov plain.--Turgenev and the life-giving drop.--Sukhovo-Kobylin: "Who killed the French woman?"--Notes on Tolstoy.--Notes on Pushkin.--A little museum of Russian language.--The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov.--Svetlana and her sisters.--Solzhenitsyn.

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Russian literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Russian language.

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