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)

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

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Born in Russia
Active in Russia

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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 …

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Citation: Porter, Robert. "Anatolii Pristavkin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 August 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13362, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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