{"product_id":"literary-biographies-in-the-lives-of-remarkable-people-series-in-russia-biography-for-the-masses-9781793618290","title":"Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Writing and Re-Writing the Literary Canon: A History of Russian Biography in the Lives of Remarkable People Series—Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Remarkable Pushkin —Angela Brintlinger \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Larger than Life: The Meaning of Griboedov in Russian National Biography—Catherine O’Neil \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: N.V. Gogol, Biographer’s Conundrum– Ludmilla A. Trigos \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Remarkable Tolstoy, from the Age of the Tsars to the Putin Era— Caryl Emerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Per Aspera Ad Astra: The Remarkable Lives of Fyodor Dostoevsky – Alexander Spektor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Searching for the “Real” Chekhov: Approaches and Appropriations—Radislav Lapushin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: From Idol to Villain and (Almost) Back: Gorky as Editor and Subject of Lives of Remarkable People)– Irene Masing-Delic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Alexander Blok as the Model Modernist– Jonathan Stone \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Narrating Eccentricity: The ZhZL Biographies of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva—Alexandra Smith \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Mikhail Bulgakov: Refractions of a Writer’s Life – J.A.E. Curtis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Between Biography and Mythology: The Russian and American Lives of Joseph Brodsky—Carol Ueland \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042640003415,"sku":"9781793618290","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793618290.jpg?v=1750954968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-biographies-in-the-lives-of-remarkable-people-series-in-russia-biography-for-the-masses-9781793618290","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}