Village prose[1] (Russian: Деревенская проза, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on collectivization in Novyi mir by Valentin Ovechkin as the starting point of village prose, though most of the subsequent works associated with the genre are fictional novels and short stories.[2][3] Authors associated with village prose include Aleksander Yashin, Fyodor Abramov, Boris Mozhayev, Vasily Belov, Viktor Astafyev, Vladimir Soloukhin, Vasily Shukshin, and Valentin Rasputin.[4] Some critics also count Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn among the village prose writers for his short novel Matryona's Place.[5]
Many village prose works espoused an idealized picture of traditional Russian village life and became increasingly associated with Russian nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. Some have argued that the nationalist subtext of village prose is the reason the Soviet government remained supportive of village prose writers like Valentin Rasputin (who became a member of the Writers' Union) during the Time of Stagnation, even while they began to more heavily censor other dissenting movements, like Youth and Urban Prose.[6][7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Prose poem". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ Parthé, Kathleen F. (1992), Russian Village Prose: the Radiant Past, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 151, ISBN 0-691-06889-5
- ^ Parthé, Kathleen (2000), "Russian Village Prose in Paraliterary Space", in McMillin, Arnold (ed.), Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s, Studies in Russian and European literature, 3, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Pub., pp. 225–242, ISBN 90-5702-593-0
- ^ Shrayer, Maxim D. (2020), Антисемитизм и упадок русской деревенской школы: Астафьев, Белов, Распутин [Antisemitism and the Decline of Russian Village Prose: Astafiev, Belov, Rasputin], Современная западная русистика [Contemporary western rusistika] (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Academic Studies Press; BiblioRosica, ISBN 978-1-6446945-1-0
- ^ Dale E. Peterson, "Solzhenitsyn Back in the U.S.S.R.: Anti-Modernism in Contemporary Soviet Prose," Berkshire Review, 16 (1981): 64-78
- ^ Yitzchak Brudny, Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 1998
- ^ Cosgrove, Simon (2004), Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature: The Case of Nash sovremennik, 1981–1991, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-42145-9
External links
edit | This article about a literary movement is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |