Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gary rosenshield”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gary Rosenshield ...
    Translated by Henry Carlisle, Olga Carlisle ...
    A classic novel of innocence, guilt, and morality by a Russian masterIn one of Dostoevsky's most personal novels, Prince Myshkin, an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, returns to Russia from a sanitorium in Switzerland. His naivete and his faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society, earning him the reputation of "the idiot." Prince Myshkin's morality is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary

    The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle

    by Gary Rosenshield ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Ridiculous Jew

    The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky

    by Gary Rosenshield ...
    This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly employed. Rather, he examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Physical Pain and Justice

    Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel

    by Gary Rosenshield ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    It has been said that all great literature is about suffering. But before the twentieth century, physical pain, one of the most primal forms of human suffering, has rarely been represented on the stage and in fiction. But when it is foregrounded in works of literature, it is not only the most dramatic way of representing human suffering, it is also used to explore, in the most intense form, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Bloodmarked

    by Tracy Deonn ...
    Series series The Legendborn Cycle
    An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!“Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or Arthurian retellings.” —Booklist (starred review)The “worthy successor to an explosive debut” (Kirkus Reviews)—the New York Times ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

    by Robert Chandler ...
    From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • A Hero Of Our Time

    by Mikhail Lermontov ...
    Translated by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov ...
    The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • If There is Something to Desire

    One Hundred Poems

    by Vera Pavlova ...
    Translated by Steven Seymour ...
    I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards.Such is the elegant simplicity—a whole poem in ten words, vibrating with image and emotion—of the best-selling Russian poet Vera Pavlova. The one hundred poems in this book, her first full-length volume in English, all have the same salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as the title poem concludes, “If there was nothing to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story: A Critical Companion

    by Lyudmila Parts ...
    The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each authors oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Charms of Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture

    by Mark Lipovetsky ...
    The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-soviet tricksters, including such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
    This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled geniuses which created it.Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, is an attempt to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Russian Literature, 1995-2002

    On the Threshold of a New Millennium

    by Norman Shneidman ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored ... Read more

    $35.99 USD