04018nam 2200757 450 991078041800332120230912163201.01-282-01447-197866120144751-4426-8050-410.3138/9781442680500(CKB)2420000000004396(OCoLC)666908088(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218663(SSID)ssj0000289168(PQKBManifestationID)11205435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289168(PQKBWorkID)10384887(PQKB)10860626(CaBNvSL)thg00600263 (DE-B1597)464919(OCoLC)1013961023(OCoLC)944177545(DE-B1597)9781442680500(Au-PeEL)EBL4672009(CaPaEBR)ebr11257695(OCoLC)958565428(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/96k2rj(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418155(MiAaPQ)EBC4672009(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105281(MiAaPQ)EBC3254759(EXLCZ)99242000000000439620160922h20012001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe art of compromise the life and work of Leonid Leonov /Boris ThomsonToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2001.©20011 online resource (422 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-3537-X Includes bibliographical references and index.1Early Years and Literary Debut3 --2Badgers 192432 --3Thief 192752 --4Stories and Plays 1927-192878 --5Sot' and Locusts 1930-193199 --6Skutarevsky 1932125 --7Road to Ocean 1935149 --8Three Plays 1936-1940173 --9War Years 1941-1945191 --10An Ordinary Man and A Golden Coach 1940-1946203 --11Russian Forest 1953215 --12Late Revisions 1955-1962239 --13Pyramid 1994265 --14Art of Compromise285 --AppendixZapis'na bereste295.Although the Russian novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov had published extensively before 1917 he considered that his literary career began only in 1922 with the short story Buryga. His talent developed rapidly in the comparatively free cultural climate of the first decade of the Revolution and by 1927 his characteristic style and themes were already formed. It was in this year, however, that the Communist Party began to impose its demands on the artists and intellectuals. Leonov's beliefs and values were incompatible with the Soviet version of Marxism but he tried to affirm them indirectly in his work through structure, imagery and allusion, while outwardly conforming to official demands. This manoeuvring inevitably led him into some questionable compromises which in turn damaged his reputation, both at home and abroad. Leonov himself was painfully conscious of the moral dilemmas involved and his later works return again and again to the question: is it possible to compromise without being compromised?There are fourteen chapters in the volume, each devoted to one or more of Leonov's works, setting the successive stages of his evolution against a background of changing cultural and political policies.Authors, Russian20th centuryBiographyCommunism and literatureSoviet UnionSoviet UnionfastLivres numeriques.Biographies.e-books.Electronic books. Authors, RussianCommunism and literature8991.73/42Thomson Boris1491216MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780418003321The art of compromise3712960UNINA