Ivan Vyzhigin – A Moral–Satirical Novel Bulgarin Katz Todd Hardback

Ivan VyzhiginA Moral-Satirical Novel\nAuthor(s): Faddei Bulgarin, Michael R. Katz, William Mills Todd\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Northern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501782619, 978-1501782619\nSynopsis\nWith his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire Ivan Vyzhigin [tel]. The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an orphaned peasant who relates his many adventures as a young man. The book is remarkable for its accurate descriptions of nineteenth-century Russian day-to-day reality: the clothes, food, surroundings, and characters that Ivan Vyzhigin encounters. Its publication ushered in the age of prose in nineteenth-century Russian literature, and Bulgarin was hailed by Pushkin as a major prose writer. \n\n As William Mills Todd III notes in his introduction, Ivan Vyzhigin opens a wind.