Year: 1989
Author: Mersereau John, Jr.
Genre: History of Literature
Publisher: Ardis Publishing
ISBN: 0-87501-033-4
English language
Format:PDF
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 169

Professor Mersereau's study — the most thorough in any language of this unjustly neglected writer — uses Somov's life and works to examine this crucial period when Russia gave birth to a great literature.

Introduction 7
I. Life and Literary Activities 13
II. Somov as Critic 41
III. Prose: General Observations 51
IV. Non-Fictional Prose 63
V. Fiction: Legends 75
VI. Fiction: Stories of Russian and Ukrainian Life 91
VII. Fiction: Tales of the Supernatural 119
VIII. Fiction: Tales of Other Lands 145
Conclusion 153
Notes 155

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