Urban prose

In these years, the themes of historical memory and social responsibility emerge in lurii Trifonov s urban prose , which re-examines established viewpoints on the consequences of the revolution and of Stalinism. In the new war prose by Vasil Bykov, lurii Bondarev, Grigorii Baklanov, and... 

The central hero of urban prose is the intelligent. By virtue of their education, the intelligentsia s connection with history is conditioned by knowledge of the intellectual traditions of their time their life choice is not an intuitive whim, but the fully conscious choice of people who either accept or reject the compromises of their own times. 

The literary phenomena of these differing kinds of prose brought to life by the Thaw s re-examination of history take unlocked memory as their very basis of construction. Their times and places (to paraphrase Trifonov s title) do not coincide, since their authors experiences are individualized, but these experiences belong to a single generation, nonetheless. But the boundaries between these trends are fluid in urban prose, we often see as a... 

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