From Pushkin to Pasternak bilingual textbook has been published by Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute of Foreign Languages. The textbook is meant for Icelandic students listening to the course of lectures in Russian literature of the 19th – 20th centuries. The book provides a comprehensive cultural - historical view on development of the Russian poetry and prose in this period.
The textbook contains 18 chapters dedicated to the literary legacy of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Chekov, Gorky, Block, Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Sholokhov, Bunin, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Platonov, Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak. Each chapter comprises writers’ biography and analyses their main literary works, presents texts in the Russian language accompanied by lexical and linguistic and culturological comments.
Authors of this first textbook on Russian literature published in Iceland are Associate Professor of the Department of the Russian Language for foreign students of the Department of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University Olga Korotkova and Professor of the Russian language and literature of Department of the Foreign Languages and Culture of Iceland University Rebecca Trainsdottir.
The book is published with support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation. It is addressed, first of all, to students, speaking the Russian language on a basic level (A21), however, it is also useful for everybody who is interested in the Russian literature.
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