Synopses & Reviews
A Window on Russia is a collection of Wilson's papers on Russian writers and the Russian language, writtern between 1943 and 1971.
About the Author
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.
Table of Contents
Notes from the forties.--Russian language.--Pushkin.--Tyutchev--Gogol: the demon in the overgrown garden.--Seeing Chekhov plain.--Turgenev and the life-giving drop.--Sukhovo-Kobylin: "Who killed the French woman?"--Notes on Tolstoy.--Notes on Pushkin.--A little museum of Russian language.--The strange case of Pushkin and Nabokov.--Svetlana and her sisters.--Solzhenitsyn.