LEADER 03867nam 2200673 450 001 9910455927503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-01447-1 010 $a9786612014475 010 $a1-4426-8050-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680500 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004396 035 $a(OCoLC)666908088 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289168 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205435 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289168 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384887 035 $a(PQKB)10860626 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600263 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254759 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672009 035 $a(DE-B1597)464919 035 $a(OCoLC)1013961023 035 $a(OCoLC)944177545 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672009 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257695 035 $a(OCoLC)958565428 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004396 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe art of compromise $ethe life and work of Leonid Leonov /$fBoris Thomson 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (422 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3537-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tA Note on Transliteration -- $t1. Early Years and Literary Debut -- $t2. The Badgers 1924 -- $t3. The Thief 1921 -- $t4. Stories and Plays 1927-1928 -- $t5. The Sot' and Locusts 1930-1931 -- $t6. Skutarevsky 1932 -- $t7. The Road to Ocean 1935 -- $t8. Three Plays 1936-1940 -- $t9. The War Years 1941-1945 -- $t10. An Ordinary Man and A Golden Coach 1940-1946 -- $t11. The Russian Forest 1953 -- $t12. The Late Revisions 1955-1962 -- $t13. The Pyramid 1994 -- $t14. The Art of Compromise -- $tAppendix: 'Zapis'na bereste' -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAlthough 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. 606 $aAuthors, Russian$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aCommunism and literature$zSoviet Union 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, Russian 615 0$aCommunism and literature 676 $a8991.73/42 700 $aThomson$b Boris$01036772 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455927503321 996 $aThe art of compromise$92457292 997 $aUNINA