| | 1 | Author: | Cahan, Abraham | Add | | | Title: | The Younger Russian Writers  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | RUSSIAN critics never cease lamenting the dearth of good
literature. Turgeneff, Dostoyevsky, Pisemsky, Goncharoff, and
Pomialovsky are dead; Tolstoy, the only survivor of the great
constellation of the sixties and seventies, is a very old man and has
"sworn off;" while the younger generation of novelists has so far failed to
produce a single work of lasting value. The productions of the masters
were inspired by the noble enthusiasms of their time: they were the
æsthetic offspring of the abolitionist movement and of the
renaissance which followed the emancipation of the serfs. "Does the
poverty of our literature of to-day denote a lack of ideals?" ask the critics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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