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People from the Backwoods
Действие романа Александра Малышкина, впервые опубликованного в 1937 году, развертывается в промежуток, времени между осенью 1929 и весной 1930 годов. Перед читателем предстают многие характерные черты эпохи, помыслы, чаяния людей, небывалый подъем созидательной энергии; главная тема - наступление на прежнее "захолустье", на многовековую технико-экономическую отсталость страны.
534 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Alexander Malyshkin
8 booksAlexander Georgievich Malyshkin. Russian Soviet writer, classic of socialist realism.
He was born into a peasant family. He graduated from the Philological Faculty of Petrograd University (1916). Member of the Civil War 1918-20.
Early stories (1914-15) paint a gloomy and quiet county backwater. Malyshkin became famous for the story The Fall of Dair (1923), one of the first attempts in Soviet literature to comprehend the popular character of the revolution. The romantic pathos of the "multitudes" striving into the future is the dominant note of the story. The story "Sevastopol" (1931) shows the difficult path of spiritual searches of a young man, a native of the lower strata of the democratic intelligentsia, who brought him to the revolutionary sailor regiment.
The novel "People from the Boondocks" brought wide reader recognition(1937-38) - the peak of the writer's creativity. In the novel, the grandiose image of provincial provincial Russia, reaching for a new life, is carefully developed and deeply felt. The writer's attention is focused on the builders of the metallurgical giant Zhurkin, Tishka, Pole, whose fates are put forward by the yardstick of everything that happens. The image of the knight of the revolution Podoprigora is one of the main achievements of the novel. The combination of the romantic pathos of the social transformation of society with the spirit of deep exploration of life is a feature of the best works of the writer. His books have been translated into the languages of the peoples of the USSR and foreign languages.
He was born into a peasant family. He graduated from the Philological Faculty of Petrograd University (1916). Member of the Civil War 1918-20.
Early stories (1914-15) paint a gloomy and quiet county backwater. Malyshkin became famous for the story The Fall of Dair (1923), one of the first attempts in Soviet literature to comprehend the popular character of the revolution. The romantic pathos of the "multitudes" striving into the future is the dominant note of the story. The story "Sevastopol" (1931) shows the difficult path of spiritual searches of a young man, a native of the lower strata of the democratic intelligentsia, who brought him to the revolutionary sailor regiment.
The novel "People from the Boondocks" brought wide reader recognition(1937-38) - the peak of the writer's creativity. In the novel, the grandiose image of provincial provincial Russia, reaching for a new life, is carefully developed and deeply felt. The writer's attention is focused on the builders of the metallurgical giant Zhurkin, Tishka, Pole, whose fates are put forward by the yardstick of everything that happens. The image of the knight of the revolution Podoprigora is one of the main achievements of the novel. The combination of the romantic pathos of the social transformation of society with the spirit of deep exploration of life is a feature of the best works of the writer. His books have been translated into the languages of the peoples of the USSR and foreign languages.
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December 16, 2023
Compelling and fascinating insight. Structurally beautiful. A completely different side of the early Soviet regime shown - the challenges as well as the perceived triumphs. Shame there's no second part.
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