Russian Nights
by Vladimir Odoevsky
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This captivating novel is the summation of Odoevsky's views and interests in many fields: Gothic literature, romanticism, mysticism, the occult, social responsibility, Westernization, utopia and anti-utopia. Compared to The Decameron, to Hoffman's Serapion Brethren, and to the Platonic dialogues, Russian Nights is a unique mixture of romantic and society tales framed by Odoevsky's musings on strands of Russian thought and his own obsessions.Tags
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A novel in the form of stories over nine "nights" with an epilogue. The style is reminiscent of Boccacio's Decameron or even Plato. I found the interplay of actions and ideas tempting as this type of narrative always appeals to me.
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- Canonical title
- Russian Nights
- Original title
- Русские ночи
- Original publication date
- 1844
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.73 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction
- LCC
- PG3337 .O3 .R813 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870
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- 63
- Popularity
- 491,234
- Reviews
- 1
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- (3.43)
- Languages
- 6 — English, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 1
