Days of reckoning in Russian and American novellas: a cross-cultural triptych

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Three Russian and three American novellas are compared in pairs, forming a cross-cultural triptych. All of the novellas are concerned with the quest for truth and share as well a focus on everyday objects such as hats, newspapers and hooks. The novellas are Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,' Saul Bellow's 'Seize the Day,' Lydia Chukovskaya's 'Sofia Petrovna,' Meridel Le Sueur's 'The Girl,' Natalya Baranskaya's 'A Week Like Any Other' and Arlene Heyman's 'Artifact.'

Comparative analysis, Literature, American fiction, Truth, Truth in literature, Russian fiction

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Writing the self and the Sixties

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Lee Harvey Oswald has been variously portrayed by Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo as emblematic of the 1960s. All these authors have presented their writing as historical evidence of their existence, and it may be Oswald turned to violence as a way to create an historical identity.

Behavior, Political aspects, Presidents, Presidents (Government), Portrayals, Critical Essay, Kennedy, John F., Assassination, DeLillo, Don, 1960s (Decade), Mailer, Norman, Didion, Joan, Oswald, Lee Harvey

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Beauty and nightmare in Vietnam War fiction

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The Vietnam War fiction opened a way into tangled historic territory, the territory of war inhabited by literature. 'Sand in the Wind', written by Robert Roth secures a unique way of engaging safely with the Vietnam War and the losses it entailed.

Vietnam War, 1959-1975, War stories, Critical essay, Sand in the Wind (Book)

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