Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938)
Auteur van Het naakte jaar
Over de Auteur
Pilnyak was a leading and controversial writer of the 1920s. He became very popular after the publication of The Naked Year (1921), which deals with the Bolshevik Revolution and its impact on Russia. His subsequent career was marred by several scandals. A 1926 story, "The Tale of the Unextinguished toon meer Moon," presented the death of a high-ranking military leader in terms similar to the actual fate of the celebrated army commissar Frunze. All copies of the magazine carrying the story were confiscated. A more dangerous situation arose when the story "Mahogany" (1929) was published in Germany. A campaign of vilification forced Pilnyak from the All-Russian Union of Writers, of which he was chairman. During the 1930s, Pilnyak slowly faded from view. He was arrested during the purges and apparently was shot in 1937. Pilnyak's great impact on literature came largely from his style. He created a literary language that combines epic solemnity with lyricism, draws on folklore, and freely creates complex, often striking or shocking, constructions. The attraction of such techniques was so strong that charges of "Pilnyakism" were leveled against many writers who followed in a similar vein. Pilnyak's works are very carefully crafted and express complex philosophical ideas. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Boris Pilnyak
Eisgang. Erzählungen 3 exemplaren
Mogano, Oltre le foreste, Greco-tramontana, La luna non si spense e altri racconti e romanzi brevi 3 exemplaren
Sankt-Piter-Burh i druge priče 2 exemplaren
Izbrannye proizvedeniia 2 exemplaren
A Year in Their Life (in Worlds Apart - LEVITSKY) 2 exemplaren
Повесть непогашенной луны : повести 1 exemplaar
Mogano: Oltre le foreste: Greco-tramontana: La luna non si spense, e altri racconti e romanzi brevi 1 exemplaar
Oltre le foreste 1 exemplaar
Человеческий ветер: Романы, повести, рассказы 1 exemplaar
Двойники 1 exemplaar
Golyj god 1 exemplaar
Romany 1 exemplaar
Une Femme russe en Chine 1 exemplaar
Избранные сочинения 1 exemplaar
Krasnoe derevo i drugie 1 exemplaar
Golo leto 1 exemplaar
Mašine i vuci 1 exemplaar
L'anno nudo. 1 exemplaar
Соляной амбар: главы из романа 1 exemplaar
Tales of the wilderness 1 exemplaar
Earth On The Hands 1 exemplaar
Die Wolga fällt ins Kaspische Meer 1 exemplaar
Oltre le foreste 1 exemplaar
Eisgang: Erzählungen , [mit e. Essay] 1 exemplaar
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Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (2007) — Medewerker — 96 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Vogau, Boris Andreyevich
Вогау, Борис Андреевич - Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Pilnjak, Boris
- Geboortedatum
- 1894-10-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1938-04-21
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Rusland
- Geboorteplaats
- Mozhaysk, Russisch Rijk
- Plaats van overlijden
- Moskou, Sovjetunie
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
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- Werken
- 65
- Ook door
- 5
- Leden
- 345
- Populariteit
- #69,185
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 13
- ISBNs
- 80
- Talen
- 14
- Favoriet
- 2
“The very shape of this novel is anti-Western…. In order to depict the [Russian] Revolution in terms of an anti-Western rebellion, and at the same time portray its chaotic nature, it was necessary that the form of the novel should also bear as little resemblance as possible to anything in Western culture, and produce feelings of confusion and incomprehension in the reader. Thus at first sight, to the uninitiated reader, the novel resembles an unsystematic collection of random jottings, disjointed or unrelated camera shots of the violation and disorder which characterized the Revolution. And…characters do not develop in the ‘normal’ way—they are presented in an impressionistic manner. They have little or no psychology and appear only to portray different viewpoints of the Revolution, or as the various aspects of pre- and post-Revolutionary society….”
Trying to present or recount the two-thirds I’ve read would be next to impossible. I do hope to return to this at some point, in part because from time to time I do feel like I have a sense of what Pilnyak is trying to do. But mostly it’s a slog and I don’t see it becoming easier.… (meer)