RUSSIAN.(fiction, biography, foreign criticism, translations)(Review)

From: World Literature Today | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Dukas, Vytas; Lewis, Tom J.; MacFadyen, David; Merlin, Lara; Mozur, Joseph P., Jr.; Radley, Philippe D. | Copyright information

Fiction

Natal'ia Asenkova. Na fone Kormil'tsa. Tenafly, N.J. Hermitage. 1997. 111 pages. $9. ISBN 1-55779-096-5.

The unnamed title character of Na fone Kormil'tsa, a grand forefather of Russian classical literature (who for Russians can only be Pushkin), is of course long dead by the time of the story's action, yet still provides the guiding ethos of this interrogation into national identity and nostalgia for the homeland. Taking place both in the spiritual h...

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