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Proust-Envy: Fiction and Autobiography in the Works of Iurii Olesha
Get PDFIurii Olesha\u27s works present us with a series of episodes for a fictional autobiography: the self-portrait of the artist as failure. Already early in his career, Olesha was committed to the achievement of success through the creation and manipulation of images of failure. These images are also dominant in his last work No Day Without a Line, which this article analyzes. Olesha declares in No Day that he wishes to go backwards through life the way Marcel Proust succeeded in doing in his time. There are interesting similarities between the two writers, particularly the fact that A la Recherche du temps perdu is also in a sense based in the imagination of failure. But Olesha misunderstands Proust\u27s procedure, and in so doing reveals much about the nature of his own talent and his inability to come to terms with time
Reminiscences of Childhood: An Approach to a Comparative Mythology. By Richard N. Coe. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section), vol. 19, part VI. Leeds, UK: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1984. v, 95 pp. £8.00 (in England)/£12.00 (foreign), paper.
No full textNew Mecca, New Babylon: Paris And The Russian Exiles, 1920-1945. By Robert H. Johnston. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. ix, 254 pp. $29.95, cloth.
No full textEnglish Counter Russian: Essays on Criticism of Literary Translation in America. By Munir Sendich. Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, vol. 20. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. xiv, 236 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.95, hard bound.
No full textElysian Fields: A Book of Memory. By V. S. Yanovsky. Translated by Isabella Yanovsky and V. S. Yanovsky. Foreword by Marc Raeff. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. xv, 311 pp. Photographs. Cloth.
No full textProust-Envy: Fiction and Autobiography in the Works of Iurii Olesha
No full textIurii Olesha's works present us with a series of episodes for a fictional autobiography: the self-portrait of the artist as failure. Already early in his career, Olesha was committed to the achievement of success through the creation and manipulation of images of failure. These images are also dominant in his last work No Day Without a Line, which this article analyzes. Olesha declares in No Day that he wishes to "go backwards through life the way Marcel Proust succeeded in doing in his time." There are interesting similarities between the two writers, particularly the fact that A la Recherche du temps perdu is also in a sense based in the imagination of failure. But Olesha misunderstands Proust's procedure, and in so doing reveals much about the nature of his own talent and his inability to come to terms with time
Child of a Turbulent Century. By Victor Erlich. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006. 227 pp. Notes. 19.95, paper.
No full textThe invisible land : a study of the artistic imagination of Iurii Olesha.
No full textA revision of the author's thesis, Columbia University.Bibliography: p. [199]-208
Here's To Your Health, Comrade Shifrin! By Ilya Suslov. Translated by Maxine Bronstein. Foreword by Maurice Friedberg. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1977. xviii, 204 pp. $8.95.
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