CJBC707 Russian Short Story for Non-Russianists

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Alexandr Kravčuk (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 C41
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The purpose of the course is to acquaint students of literary fields with the best examples of Russian short stories of the 19th and 20th centuries. First of all the seminar will be focused on the analysis, interpretation and comparison of selected works of Russian authors. Brief information about writers’ lives, works and about the literary process of the appropriate period will be also given during the course.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to the Russian short story tradition. Literary analysis of separate stories by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenyev, Nikolai Leskov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov etc.
Literature
  • PUŠKIN, Aleksandr Sergejevič. Bělkinovy povídky. Translated by Bohumil Mathesius, Illustrated by Vladimir Aleksejevič Milaševsk. Vydání sedmé, V Odeonu t. Praha: Odeon, 1986, 87 stran. info
  • GOGOL‘, Nikolaj Vasil‘jevič. Petrohradské povídky. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1984. info
  • TURGENEV, Ivan Sergejevič. Milostný kruh. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1984. info
  • DOSTOJEVSKIJ, Fedor Michajlovič. Bílé noci a jiné prózy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1972, 621 s. URL info
  • TOLSTOJ, Lev Nikolajevič. Dvě smrti. Edited by Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj, Translated by Alena Morávková. Vyd. v tomto překladu 1. Praha: Havran, 2003, 153 s. ISBN 8086515273. info
  • LESKOV, Nikolaj Semenovič. Železná vůle. Edited by Nikolaj Semenovič Leskov, Translated by Petr Křička. I. vydání. V Praze: Mladá fronta, 1949, 293 stran. info
  • ČECHOV, Anton Pavlovič. Cestou. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1977. info
  • GOR‘KIJ, Maksim. Zkazky a legendy od nočních ohňů. Praha: Albatros, 1982. info
  • BUNIN, Ivan Aleksejevič. Pán ze San Franciska. 1. vyd. Praha: Naše vojsko, 1970, 237 s. URL info
  • ANDREJEV, Leonid Nikolajevič. Velký Slam. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1987. info
  • BABEL‘, Isaak Èmmanuilovič. Rudá jízda a jiné prózy. Praha: Odeon, 1975. info
  • ZOŠČENKO, Michail Michajlovič. Zpověď a jiné nepříjemnosti. Edited by Milan Hrala, Translated by Jaroslav Hulák, Illustrated by Oldřich Ku. 2. souborné vyd. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1985, 377 s. URL info
  • BULGAKOV, Michail Afanas‘jevič. Novely a povídky. Praha: Odeon, 1990. ISBN 8020701672. info
  • PLATONOV, Andrej Platonovič. Co nám jde k duhu. Praha: Odeon, 1966. URL info
  • NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovič. Lužinova obrana ; Pozvání na popravu. Edited by Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov, Translated by Ludmila Dušková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1990, 316 s. ISBN 8020701974. info
  • Šalamov, Varlam, Kolymské povídky. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1995
  • SOLŽENICYN, Alexandr. Jeden den Ivana Děnisoviče. Translated by Sergej Machonin - Anna Nováková. Vyd. v tomto uspořádání. Praha: Academia, 2000, 310 s. ISBN 8020008349. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Referát, aktivní účast, docházka (max. 3 absence)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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