Iurii Trifonov
Unity through Time

This study of Iurii Trifonov (1925–81), first published in 1993, concentrates on his exploration of major events in Russian history.

David Gillespie (Author)

9780521025713, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 April 2006

264 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.351 kg

"This is the fourth book-length study of Trifonov in English and, doubtless, the most comprehensive, incisive, and cohesive, not only for specialists, but also for a general audience. Gillespie demonstrates solid knowledge of the historical and cultural context and much insight into Trifonov and his time." Sigrid McLaughlin, Slavic and East European Journal

Iurii Trifonov (1925–81) has become well known in the West as a writer of Soviet urban life. This study, first published in 1993, concentrates on his exploration of major events in Russian history (such as the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and the Russian Civil War) and their implications and consequences for his time. David Gillespie traces this interest through all of Trifonov's writings, from his earliest, Stalin prize-winning period to the self-consciously modernist later works, in which Trifonov emphasizes the interconnectedness of human life and history, with the individual as 'the nerve' of history; linking epochs, places, civilizations. Trifonov discerns patterns and analogies in history, and develops a language of hints and allusions with which to combat the repressive censorship of his time.

Preface
Introduction
1. From Moscow students to the Turkmenian desert (Studenty
Utolenie zhazhdy)
2. Moscow life, 1966–75 (Obmen
Predvaritel' nye itogi
Beskonechnye igry
Dolgoe proshchanie
Drugaia zhizn')
3. The house on the embankment (Dom na naberezhnoi)
4. Terrorism, civil war and the present (Neterpenie
Otblesk kostra
Starik)
5. Time and place (Vremia i mesto
Ischeznovenie)
Conclusion: unity through dislocation (Oprokinuytyi dom)
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]