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City Folk and Country Folk
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
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Description for City Folk and Country Folk
Paperback. Translator(s): Favorov, Nora Seligman. Series: Russian Library. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary cliches of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a commonsense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines ... Read more
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary cliches of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a commonsense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Russian Library
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231183031
SKU
V9780231183031
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About Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824-1865), writer, translator, and painter, published fiction and social commentary in Russia's most influential journals. She and her sister Nadezhda wrote to support their family, struggling members of the nobility, alternating long stretches of toil in their native Ryazan Province with visits to Russia's capitals, where they interacted with some of the country's leading intellectuals. Nora Seligman ... Read more
Reviews for City Folk and Country Folk
A single man of property comes to a country village-unsettling young and older ladies. The village is in Russia, soon after the emancipation of the serfs; Ovcharov is a hypochondriac intellectual. A comical people, he reflects at one point, and the women and the reader must agree. Admirers of Jane Austen will delight in this charming satire.
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