The Precipice (Russian Classics) - Hardcover

Goncharov, Ivan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1434409740 ISBN 13: 9781434409744

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2010

Synopsis

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not the marked genius of the first three of these; but that he is so much less known to the western reader is perhaps also due to the fact that there was nothing sensational either in his life or his literary method. His strength was in the steady delineation of character, conscious of, but not deeply disturbed by, the problems which were obsessing and distracting smaller and greater minds.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Freeborn is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of London. He has translated and edited many novels by Turgenev, and is the author of Turgenev, the Novelist's Novelist, The Rise of the Russian Novel, and The Russian Revolutionary Novel.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Russian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1434409740
• ISBN 13: 9781434409744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238