Description
Book SynopsisThroughout the twentieth century war was at the forefront of the consciousness of the Russian people, and became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet experience in literature and other areas of cultural life. This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Voinovich among others.
Trade ReviewClearly written, Chapaev and his Comrades is invaluable to scholars of war culture and scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet literature. . . . this volume contributes greatly to the body of scholarship addressing the field of Soviet war literature, an understudied field in the West." —Adrienne M. Harris, Baylor University; review published in The Russian Review, October 2013 (Vol. 72, No. 4).|“Brintlinger has made a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century Russian literature by bringing the war hero out of the Socialist Realist ghetto, showing the nuances which reveal the complexities of supposedly ‘official’ texts, as well as the multiple allusions which connect them with ‘unofficial’ texts which may parody or ridicule them, but by doing so acknowledge their claim on the cultural imagination.” —Katharine Hodgson (Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter), in the Slavonic & East European Review Vol. 92, No. 2, April 2014
