Ivan Vyzhigin: A Moral-Satirical Novel

di Faddei Bulgarin (Autore)

Michael R. Katz (Traduttore)

Cornell University Press, 2025

With his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire Ivan Vyzhigin (1829). The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an orphaned peasant who relates his many adventures as a young man. The book is remarkable for its accurate descriptions of nineteenth-century Russian day-to-day reality: the clothes, food, surroundings, and characters that Ivan Vyzhigin encounters. Its publication ushered in the age of prose in nineteenth-century Russian literature, and Bulgarin was hailed by Pushkin as a major prose writer. As William Mills Todd III notes in his introduction, Ivan Vyzhigin opens a window onto what Russians were reading between the late eighteenth century and the 1917 Revolution. Along with Todd's introduction, Katz's annotations provide literary, historical, and cultural context.

• Autore: Faddei Bulgarin
• Traduttore: Michael R. Katz
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Collana: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 396 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 907 gr.
• EAN: 9781501782626

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