{"product_id":"ivan-vyzhigin","title":"Ivan Vyzhigin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvan Vyzhigin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (1829). \u003c\/b\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs William Mills Todd III notes in his introduction, \u003ci\u003eIvan Vyzhigin\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window onto what Russians were reading between the late eighteenth century and the 1917 Revolution. Along with Todd's introduction, Katz's annotations provide literary, historical, and cultural context.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54615720821080,"sku":"9781501782626","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501782626_48fabd78-02dd-4e27-a4f8-c9cb3cb4d749.jpg?v=1781010931","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ivan-vyzhigin","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}