Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk PDF Nikolai Leskov

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The language in which the novel – particularly those parts of it which purport to be Tuberozov’s ‘diary’ – is written is a curious blend of nineteenth-century Russian, Old Slavonicisms and ecclesiastical jargon, and is extremely difficult to translate adequately into another tongue.

The same may be said of the linguistic texture of The Sealed Angel (1873), another literary work by Leskov which deals with ecclesiastical themes and problems, but treats a secular subject – the building of the first suspension bridge across the River Dnieper at Kiev, and the part played in it by a colony of Old Believers. In Musk-Ox, Leskov had given a negative portrayal of the Old Believers (the outlawed schismatics who did not accept the liturgical reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon in the mid-seventeenth century) as being cruel and obsessed with the rigid observance of their faith. In 1863, Leskov had accepted a journalistic commiss

• Book Name: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk pdf
• Author Name Nikolai Leskov
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2015

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