- Village Prose
Village Prose ( _ru. Деревенская проза, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the
Thaw , which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on collectivization inNovyi mir byValentin Ovechkin as the starting point of Village Prose, though most of the subsequent works associated with the genre are fictional novels and short stories. [Kathleen Parthe, Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: 1992 (p151)] Authors associated with Village Prose includeAleksander Yashin ,Fyodor Abramov ,Valentin Rasputin . Some critics also countAleksandr Solzhenitsyn among the Village Prose writers for his short novel Matryona's House. [Dale E. Peterson, “Solzhenitsyn Back in the U.S.S.R.: Anti-Modernism in Contemporary Soviet Prose,” Berkshire Review, 16 (1981): 64-78]Many Village Prose works espoused an idealized picture of traditional Russian village life and became increasingly associated with
Russian nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. Some have argued that the nationalist subtext of Village Prose is the reason the Soviet government remained supportive of Village Prose writers like Valentin Rasputin (who became a member of theWriters' Union ) during theTime of Stagnation , even while they began to more heavily censor other dissenting movements, like Youth and Urban Prose. [Yitzchak Brudny, Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 1998] [Simon Cosgrove, Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature: The Case of Nash sovremennik, 1981-1991, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY: 2004 ]ee also
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Fyodor Abramov
*Valentin Rasputin
*Aleksander Yashin
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
*Russian literature References
External links
* [http://www.sovlit.com/ SovLit - Free summaries of Soviet era books, many from the Thaw Era]
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