Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Bruno Jasienski
About this book
Bruno Jasieński was a bilingual Polish-Russian writer who died in exile in Siberia in 1939. This volume traces his literary evolution. The introductory biographical sketch is followed by a discussion of Jasieński's contribution to Polish poetry, specifically the Futurist movement which, like its parallels in Russia and Italy, revolutionized poetic language. An analysis and evaluation of Jasieński's prose work sheds light on the relationship between politics and literature in early twentieth-century Poland and Russia. Most of Jasieński's novels and short stories were written in the approved Soviet tradition of Socialist Realism. His Man Changes His Skin is considered one of the best Soviet industrial novels of the 1930s.
The author's comprehensive and skillful treatment of Jasieński's literary production, the first to appear in English, also makes a valuable contribution to the knowledge of Futurism in Eastern Europe and Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. The volume contains numerous quotations from Polish and Russian literature, both in English translation (prepared by the author) and in the original. It will be of interest to students of Slavic literature, comparative literature, and the literature of ideology.
Author / Editor information
Nina Kolesnikoff holds the Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian, McMaster University. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Slovanic Papers, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian Language Journal.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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A Biographical Sketch
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Polish Futurism: Its Origin and Aesthetic Programme
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The Poetry of Bruno Jasieński and the Futurist Quest to Renovate Poetic Language
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The Lay of jakub Szela and Folklore
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I Burn Paris—A Utopian Novel
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Bruno Jasieński and Soviet Literary Life 1929-1934
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Man Changes His Skin and the Industrial Novel
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Socialist Realism in "Bravery" and A Conspiracy of the Indifferent
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Grotesque Elements in The Ball of the Mannequins and "The Nose"
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Conclusion
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A Selection of Bruno Jasieński's Poetry with Prose Translation of Each Poem
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A Selected Bibliography
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Index
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