Worlds Apart An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction

by Levitsky, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781585678204
• ISBN10: 1585678201
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-29
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of an escape from the bounds of realism. Worlds Apart is the first single-volume anthology that explores this fascinating and dominant theme of Russian literature-from its origins in the provincial folk tale, through its emergence in the Romantic period in the tales of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Turgenev, to its contemporary incarnation under the clouds of authoritarianism, revolution, mechanization, and modernization-with translations of the key literary masterpieces that reveal the depth and ingenuity of the Russian imagination as it evolved over a period of tumultuous political, social, and technological upheaval.

Table of Contents

Worlds of Russian Fantasy	p. 9
Russian Early-Modern Fantasy and Utopian Thought
From Folk Myth to the Fantastic in Early Modern Russian Literature	p. 37
Foregrounding Travel in Space: Fantastic and Utopian Scapes of Bygone Years	p. 39
The Fantastic in Early-Modern Russian Poetry and Prose	p. 57
Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich (1743-1816)	p. 57
From the ode God	p. 57
The Magic Lantern	p. 61
Zlogor	p. 65
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837)	p. 67
Autumn	p. 70
The Bronze Horseman	p. 73
The Queen of Spades	p. 81
Lermontov, Mikhail Iurievich (1814-1841)	p. 103
Demon [A proem]	p. 103
The Dream	p. 106
[left angle bracket]Shtoss[right angle bracket]	p. 107
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)	p. 119
The Phantoms [abridged]	p. 122
Two Poems in Prose from Senilia	p. 138
Arabesque and Bizzare Universes of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [-Yanovsky] (1809-1852)	p. 140
Vyi [abridged]	p. 145
Nevsky Prospekt	p. 156
The Diary of a Madman	p. 183
The Nose	p. 199
Early-modern Utopias and Dostoevsky's responses to Utopian thought	p. 220
Three Early-Modern Russian Utopias
Bulgarin, Faddei Venediktovich (1789-1859) From The Plausible Fantasies	p. 227
Odoevsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1803-1869) From The Year 4338. Letters from St. Petersburg	p. 237
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gavrilovich (1828-1889) From What is to be Done: "Vera Pavlovna's Fourth Dream"	p. 248
Three Responses to Utopian Thought by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)	p. 259
Bobok	p. 259
The Little Boy at the Savior's Christmas Tree	p. 272
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man	p. 276
Modern Russian Fantasy, Utopia and Science Fiction
Russia's Silver Age and the Fantastic of the Twenties and Thirties	p. 291
Sampling Russian Symbolist Enigmas	p. 292
Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich (1880-1921)
The Stranger	p. 298
From The Twelve	p. 299
Briusov, Valery Iakovlevich (1873-1924)
Dust Demons	p. 302
The Republic of the Southern Cross	p. 303
Sologub [Teternikov], Fyodor Kuzmich (1863-1927)
The Asteroid	p. 318
A Little Man	p. 318
Bely, Andrei [Bugaev, Boris Nicholaievich] (1880-1934)
Demon	p. 335
From St. Petersburg	p. 335
Russia's Modernist and Post-Symbolist Prose	p. 345
Kuprin, Alexander Ivanovich (1870-1938)
A Toast	p. 348
Liquid Sunshine	p. 353
Remizov, Alexei Mikhailovich (1877-1957)
The Bear Cub	p. 393
The Blaze	p. 399
From the novels Russia in a Whirlwind and In a Rosy Light	p. 405
Zamiatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937)
The Dragon	p. 407
The Cave	p. 408
From We [Records 1-4]	p. 416
Pilniak, Boris Andreevich (1894-1937)
A Year in Their Life	p. 427
From The Naked Year [Chapter VII and The Last Triptych]	p. 435
The Waning of Modernism in Post-revolutionary Years	p. 447
Zabolotsky, Nikolai Alekseevich (1903-1958)
Signs of Zodiac	p. 453
Human of the Snows	p. 455
Kharms, Daniel [Yuvachev] (1905-1942)
The Young Man who Surprized the Watchman	p. 457
The Dream	p. 458
Yuri Olesha, Yuri Karlovich (1899-1960)
Love	p. 459
On the Fantasy of H. G. Wells	p. 466
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich (1891-1940)
The Fatal Eggs	p. 471
From Master and Margarita [Chapters 20 and 21]	p. 530
Pre-Soviet & Soviet Visions of Outer Space	p. 537
Bogdanov [Malinovsky], Alexander Alexandrovich (1873-1928) From The Red Star	p. 540
Tolstoy, Alexei Nikolaevich (1883-1945) From Aelita	p. 555
Platonov [Klimentov], Andrei Platonovich (1899-1951) From The Sun, the Moon, and the Ether Channel	p. 584
Efremov, Ivan Antonovich (1907-1972) From The Andromeda Nebula	p. 616
On Contemporary Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction. A Postcript by Sofya Khagi	p. 645
Bibliography and Suggested Readings	p. 651
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