Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958)
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His first book of stories appeared in 1921 and became extraordinarily popular. However, he came under political pressure in the 1930s because some of his works, such as Youth Restored (1933), were too slyly ambiguous to fit the socialist realist model. In 1946, together with Akhmatova, he was visa mer singled out for an extraordinary attack by culture "boss" Andrei Zhdanov and was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. From then on he mostly produced translations. Zoshchenko was an extremely effective satirist who took his subjects from the paradoxes and incongruities of post-Revolutionary Russian society. He showed that human nature, which the new government was trying to change, would assert itself nonetheless. His language is fascinating. He often chooses lower-class narrators who speak in a mixture of the colloquial and of the new Soviet rhetoric---with highly comic results. During the 1930s, Zoshchenko's fiction began to explore philosophical and theoretical problems. A well-known example is Before Sunrise, the first part of which was published in 1943. In it the author analyzes his own psyche, in the process touching on the then-forbidden theories of Freud. Publication of the complete text of this work did not occur until 1972. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Zosjtsjenko, Michail
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Zoscenko, Michail Michajlovic
- Födelsedag
- 1895
- Avled
- 1958-07-22
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Rusland
- Födelseort
- Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire
St. Petersburg, Russia, Russian Empire ( according to1953 autobiography) - Dödsort
- Sestroretsk, Leningrad, Russia, USSR
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Leningrad, Rusland
Sint Petersburg, Rusland - Utbildning
- Saint Petersburg University (law) (did not graduate)
- Yrken
- author
satirist
translator
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- Serapion Brothers
Imperial Russian Army
Red Army
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- Medlemmar
- 708
- Popularitet
- #35,797
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Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales resorts to a technique which had been used by other Russian authors, including Gogol and Pushkin in works such as [b:Tales of Belkin|6697972|Tales of Belkin|Alexander Pushkin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320559853s/6697972.jpg|50747166] and "A History of the Village of Goryukhino”. In a meta-fictional approach which seems to foreshadow postmodern techniques, the stories are allegedly written by one Kolenkorov, a mediocre writer who strives, with limited success, to conform to the ideals of a “model Soviet artist”. As a result, the narration is deliberately clunky, replete with irrelevant details, overblown metaphors and inconsequential asides. This provides much of the humour, but it also serves as a cover for Zoshchenko. Melodramatic tales of tragic, unrequited love – which otherwise might have been considered too “sentimental” – are camouflaged by this comedic approach. More importantly, the farcical elements allow Zoshchenko to get away with biting social satire.
Such works need a sensitive translator to do them justice – hats off to Boris Dralyuk (who has already shown his mettle in other challenging translations for Penguin, Maclehouse Press and Pushkin Press amongst others). He manages to transpose the particular wit of Zoshchenko into English, making it accessible to us despite the differences in language and culture.… (mer)