The Rise of Prose: Gogol
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Description: Details the change in Russian literature after the introduction of Gogol's works
LESSON 6 The Rise of Prose: Nikolai Gogol The entire history of modern Russian literature from the time of Lomonosov (1711-1765) had been dominated by poetry. However, this overwhelming fact tends to be obscured in Russian literature courses that are based on English translations. Since it is extremely difficult to translate poetry well, this course, like many others, has dealt almost exclusively with prose texts. You need to remind yourself, therefore, that with the exception of the stories of Karamzin in the 1790s, Russian literature from 1740 to 1830 was almost exclusively a literature of poetry. However, from 1830 on, a new trend began to emerge in the development of Russian literary culture. Stimulated by developments abroad, especially in German and French literature, prose began to assert itself in Russia as an artistic medium on a par with poetry. By the middle of the 1840s the pendulum had swung so far in the direction of prose that poetry was a sort of second-class artistic citizen for about fifty years.
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