| #7813164 in Books | 2012-11-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x.70 x5.80l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 331 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Definitive and authoritative|By Lost John|This is one of those books where the subtitle is a better guide to the content than the eye-catching title. Muireann Maguire makes clear in her introduction that she has not 'embarked on a quest to track down every evocation of Stalin as a specter in modern literature, fascinating as that task might prove', but that her book 'pursues th||«As a standalone text, this book constitutes a valuable contribution to Soviet studies, introducing us to many lesser-known stories and writers and to new sides of more commonly studied texts. Most important, it reveals the dark underside of Soviet cultu
Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Com...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature | Muireann Maguire.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
