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John Bayley, 30 August 1990
A Wicked Irony: The Rhetoric of Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of Our Time’
by Andrew Barratt and A.D.P. Briggs.
Bristol Classical Press, 139 pp., £25, May 1989,1 85399 020 5 Show More
by Andrew Barratt and A.D.P. Briggs.
Bristol Classical Press, 139 pp., £25, May 1989,
The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth
by Andrew BaruchWachtel.
Stanford, 262 pp., $32.50, May 1990,0 8047 1795 8 Show More
by Andrew BaruchWachtel.
Stanford, 262 pp., $32.50, May 1990,
“... Childhood is rather oddly named, but turns out to be a fascinating book, particularly good on what Wachtel calls the myths of childhood among the Russian gentry, enshrined in Aksakov’s great ‘trilogy’: Childhood Years, A Family Chronicle and The Childhood of Bagrov’s Grandson – the titles with their repetitions are awkward in English. Aksakov wrote ... ”
