scholarly journals “I have read your novel and understood nothing, but I was so impressed!”

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Mikhail Shishkin ◽  
Ekaterina Maksimova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Literary Awards

Mikhail Shishkin is a writer, author of the novels “One Night Befalls Us All”, “The Taking of Izmail”, “Maidenhair”, “The Light and the Dark”, as well as novellas, short stories, essays, and the guide “Russian Switzerland”. Winner of the literary awards “Russian Booker Prize” (2000), “Russian National Bestseller” (2005) and “Big Book Prize” (2011). He writes in Russian and German. In this issue of P&I, Mikhail Shishkin recalls the “War and Peace” as a cure, chooses the main film about contemporary Russia and tells what every father should teach his son. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova.

Semyon Kotko and War and Peace

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-212
Author(s):  
Terry Dean
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Compositional Elements ◽  
Almost All

Prokofiev was both a voracious reader and a compulsive writer—of letters, diaries, an extensive autobiography, and even of poems and short stories. His interest in text, and in particular in its dramatic impact, determined that, for almost all his operas, he was his own librettist. This allowed him not only control of all compositional elements but also realized his preference for setting passages of non-rhyming prose in a declamatory style, which he believed to be more realistic and dramatically effective. Nevertheless, upon his return to the Soviet Union, Prokofiev found that this approach to text sources was seldom compatible with the demands of Socialist Realism. The chapter explores his reliance on collaborators more familiar than he was with Soviet aesthetics, and it focuses, in particular, on his collaboration with his second wife, Mira Mendelson on the opera War and Peace, with reference to their manuscript notebooks.

scholarly journals Transformative Moments: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda McKay
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
Patrick White ◽  
The University ◽  
Literary Awards

Janette Turner Hospital is the author of eight novels, four collections of short stories, a novella published only in French, and a crime thriller under the pseudonym Alex Juniper. Her work has been published in 20 countries, and in 12 languages other than English. She is the recipient of a number of overseas literary awards, and both Griffith University (in 1996) and the University of Queensland (in 2003) have conferred honorary doctorates upon her. In 2003 she won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Fiction Book for her most recent novel, Due Preparations for the Plague, and the Patrick White Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement.

scholarly journals The Function of Imagery in War and Peace

Slavic Review ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Tolstoy the man, whose awe-inspiring personality haunts us still, poses an enormous obstacle to those who wish to write about his work. One frequently encounters interpretations of the novels, plays, and short stories based on Tolstoy's aims in creating them and on what his consciously held values were or are believed to have been. Unfortunately for anyone who attempts this kind of evaluation, Tolstoy, one of the most complex and baffling men who ever lived, is notorious for his self-contradictions. Although we have some good biographies, Tolstoy deserves the attention of a scholar—probably not a literary critic—with a sophisticated view of human personality and the relationship between the individual and society, who will write an analytical account of his problems comparable to Erik Erikson's widely admired Young Man Luther.

scholarly journals JAMES JONES AND HIS SHORT STORIES ON LIFE CHALLENGES FACED BY AMERICANS IN THE XX CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
James Jones ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Former Ussr

The article, dealing with the centenary anniversary of James Jones, presents her own subdivision of his creative work into periods, given that the author of the article was the first researcher in the former USSR and the USA defending her monographic work in 1981 on “Problems of War and Peace in James Jones’s creative work”. The aim of her article is to highlight the role of a short story genre in evolution of American writers, including James Jones, choosing their themes and further confirming the manner and peculiarities of their writing style in their novels. The main part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the short stories (which were only 13), published by James Jones in his collection entitled “The Ice-cream Headache” and Other Stories”. The researcher presented her interesting classification of them, showing their different grouping by themes, main characters with their psychology that affected their behavior and, naturally, the writer’s intention to show his attitude to the events described in each story.

War and Peace

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 656-657
Author(s):  
Walter G. Stephan
Keyword(s):  
War And Peace
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