Anatolii Pristavkin

Robert Porter (University of Glasgow)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 17 Oct 1931
Died 11 Jul 2008
Activity 1959-2008

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

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Fiction

Other

Nonfiction

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Pristavkin's Works

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Anatolii Pristavkin has been generally regarded as a Soviet conformist writer who achieved a degree of prominence only after Gorbachev came to power (particularly with his novel

A Golden Cloud Spent The Night

(

Nochevala tuchka zolotaia

), which enjoyed widespread success). Before this he produced a good many narratives with, in Soviet terms, conventional themes concerning industrial production and wartime heroism. He could be considered a civic-minded liberal, but he never ventured into the dissident camp, never indulging in

samizdat

(self-publication) or

tamizdat

(publication only in the West). Viewing his

oeuvre

in its entirety one glimpses an honest foot soldier of Russian literature, whose best work has raised poignant questions about his county’s past and its duties to future…

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Citation: Porter, Robert. "Anatolii Pristavkin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 August 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13362, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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