“The Vegetarian Twenties” in Zakhar Prilepin’s the Monastery
In The Monastery, Prilepin’s political agenda recedes into the background and Prilepin the writer comes to the fore; politics is present in the novel only to lend creative integrity to the piece: politics is a derivative of time, while man arises from eternity. The Monastery offers a choice of alter...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://openrepository.ru/article?id=255220 |
| Summary: | In The Monastery, Prilepin’s political agenda recedes into the background and Prilepin the writer comes to the fore; politics is present in the novel only to lend creative integrity to the piece: politics is a derivative of time, while man arises from eternity. The Monastery offers a choice of alternative historic interpretations, each of them somewhat subjective, and encourages the readers to come to their own conclusions, much in the manner of Voltaire. © 2017 East View Information Services. All rights reserved. |
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