Third Rome. Classical epic and Russian novel (from Gogol to Pasiernak). Griffith F.T., Rabinovich S. Dzh.

The authors of the book are exploring the origin of the Russian classic novel. Polemic with the famous theory of M. M. Bakhtin, they reveal the epic origins of the novel tradition and inherent in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. The desire to create a national epic like the Iliad or Eneid. The meaning of this claim becomes obvious as a result of an elegant analysis of the “dead souls”, “the brothers Karamazov”, “Dr. Zhivago” and the memoirs of N. Ya. Mandelstam.