Mikhail Zoshchenko was a household name in the Soviet Union from
the 1920s until the crackdown on the arts after World War II. This
is a full-length study in English of his career, and of his
critical and political reception in a society where the purpose of
art was service to the state. It places his longer works and the
events leading up to his literary assassination in 1946 in the
context of the short, riotous works that won him mass readership
and a devoted following among contemporary writers who agreed with
each other on little else. Dr Scatton identifies stylistic and
thematic unities in his prose, and argues that Zoshchenko's later
works were natural outgrowths of his earlier experiments and not,
as is often stated, aberrations or expressions of subservience to
the regime. Both as a master of Russian prose and a victim of
Stalinist literary politics, Zoshchenko has been the object of
critical rediscovery and reassessment over the last 15 years. This
book describes that process.
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