{"product_id":"9781501782626-ivan-vyzhigin","title":"Ivan Vyzhigin","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Moral-Satirical Novel\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56063086461302,"sku":"9781501782626","price":30.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35592364.jpg?v=1754638083","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781501782626-ivan-vyzhigin","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}