Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the
origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the
Lukacs-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from
its European context, the authors reveal that it developed as a
means of reconnecting the narrative form with its origins in
classical and Christian epic in a way that expressed the Russian
desire to renew and restore ancient spirituality. Through this
methodology, Griffiths and Rabinowitz dispute Bakhtin's
classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre whose time
has passed. Due to its grand themes and cultural centrality, the
epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders
seeking legitimacy through appropriation of the past. Through
readings of Gogol's Dead Souls-a uniquely problematic work, and one
which Bakhtin argued was novelistic rather than epic-Dostoevsky's
Brothers Karamazov, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Tolstoy's War and
Peace, this book redefines "epic" and how we understand the sweep
of Russian literature as a whole.
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