Titlebook: Under Eastern Eyes; The West as Reflecte Arnold McMillin (Professor of Russian Literature) Book 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macm

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,Sick Ideas of a Sick Society: The ‘West-East’ Theme in Soviet and émigré Criticism,theme, it is impossible not to notice that they always became more intense at Russia’s moments of historical crisis. Thus it was in the 1840s to the 1860s, and thus also during the October Revolution. This insistent turning to the ‘West-East’ theme, which usually figures in the alternative form of ‘

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Home and Abroad in the Works of Brodskii,le: ‘An event in a text is the displacement of a character across the border of a semantic field’.. The subject of a lyric poet’s work is his life. The fourth of June 1972, the date of his irrevocable crossing of a non-metaphorical border, is the chief event in the subject that is Brodskii’s life, a

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Residents and Refugees,gn of congestion. Ideological congestion was aggravated by the housing crisis. From the very start writers were drawn to one another, grouped together in various ‘palaces of the arts’ and literary settlements, naively supposing that intellectuals would not harm one another. It was in these very plac

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,Western Life as Reflected in Aksenov’s Work before and after Exile,ntality (or, indeed, reality) that has beset many, and continuing to write productively and with undiminished creativity in the new environment of what he calls, parodying a Soviet cliché familiar to all travellers, ‘the capital of our non-fatherland, Hero-city Washington D.C.’.. His positive attitu

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The West, and in particular France, through the Eyes of a Distracted Russian,on tapes brought to me from Paris in the early 1960s. But I should like to start elsewhere. Twenty years later and already a well-established émigré, I was taking a walk through New York. I love walking. I have always liked Manhattan and on this occasion I had decided to walk down to the bay from th

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