Yankees in Petrograd, bolsheviks in New York : America and Americans in Russian literary perception /
In Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, one of the protagonists feigns suicide and goes to America. In Fedor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Svidrigailov announces: "I'm going to America," then commits suicide. When in America - "on the other shore," as...
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NIU Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Bolsheviks in New York. Pre-revolutionary discoveries of America : Korolenko and Gorky ; Post-revolutionary Columbuses : Esenin and Mayakovsky ; Automobile journeys of the 1930s : Pilniak and Ilf and Petrov
- The American text of Russian literature. Recurrent subtexts and motifs in American travelogues
- Yankees in Petrograd. Reverse American travelogues
- Conclusion : from Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca.