Search Results: Russian Literature from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

2001 softcover as pictured. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers show only light shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1991 hardcover as pictured. A scholarly examination fo the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-42), Leningrad absurdist of the 1920s and 30s. Kharms was one of the last representatives of the Russian literary avant-garde, whose careers and lives were blighted and curtailed by the cultural and historical excesses of Stalinism. Binding is firm. Brown cloth boards with gold stamping show light shelf wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1901 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards are lightly soiled and rubbed with slight fraying at head and tail of spine and corners. Text is clean and unmarked. Page 57 has a tear and fold that occurred during production. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1984 softcover as pictured. The author's analysis of works by Švarc, Solženicyn, Evtušenko and others emphasizing the stylistic peculiarities of modern literature in the Soviet Union that arose from the confrontation with censorship. Text in English. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are lightly tanned and soiled. Notation on FFEP. Edge of text block is mottled. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

2023 hardcover as pictured. An exploration of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and Russia. The author explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and decades of Communism. The process of reinventing the tradition began in the Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s and continues to the present day. Binding is firm. Pre-printed cover shows only light shelf wear. Pencil notation on half title page. Text has pencil notations and underlinging in the first 70 pages. Binders flaw in rear endpaper. No dust jacket. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1998 hardcover as pictured. An academic study of ethnic humor in Russia. Includes extensive notes and bibliograrpy. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with orange stamping are clean with minimal edge wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows only light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE2