In the early 1870s, the radical satirist M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin declared that in Russia the family
novel was dead: "The family, that warm and cosy element . . . which once gave the novel its content,
has vanished from sight . . . The novel of contemporary man finds its resolution in the street, on the
public way, anywhere but in the home." In 1875, however, two novels began to appear serially in
rival journals: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in the conservative Russian Messenger, and Dostoevsky's
The Adolescent in the populist Notes of the Fatherland. Though they have nothing else in common,
both are family novels in excelsis. Their appearance at that time suggests that, far from having
vanished from sight, the family was still the mirror of Russian social life, and the fate of the family
was a key to Russia's destiny.
- ISBN13 9781312858701
- Publish Date 22 January 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English