From Pushkin to "Pushkin"s House": Essays on the Historical Poetics of the Russian Novel

The central topic of the book is the fate of the novel of the Servantes type in the Russian literature of the XIX-XX centuries. Under the novel of the "servant type", the author of the book understands the model of the new European "Roman of Consciousness created by Cervantes, in one form or another, the so-called" Donkoyota situation "operating. Already becoming "by the memory of the genre" of the New European Roman, Don Quixote, turned out to be included in the complex multi-communion configurations. Therefore, the reader will find in the book of chapters, in which it is also about Pikarsky (the so-called Plutovsky novel), about the baroque allegorical "epic in prose", about the new European utopia, about the epistolaur novel, the German "Roman of Education", the French psychological novel. Modernist "Roman Consciousness" of the 20th Century, presented in the west of the creations of Prousts, Joyce, Kafki, Unmuno, in the pre-revolutionary Russia - the prose of Andrei White, in Russia, the post-revolutionary - Zamytina and Platonov"s anti-asthopia, prose, clearly demonstrates the ability of the genre created by Cardin transformations.
The book is addressed to critics and literary criticism, all interested in theory and historical poetics of the novel, Russian novel in the Western European literary context