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Farewell to Matyora (Russian: Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novel by Valentin Rasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization and urbanization on peasant life.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Edward James Brown Russian Literature Since the Revolution - 1982 -- Page 309 0674782046 Farewell to Matyora (1976) deals masterfully with Rasputin's persistent theme, the tragic impact of industrial progress and unbridled urbanization on a peasant community still rooted in the past and fatally attached to ancient and decaying buildings, old artifacts, animals, and fields, and to the old methods for securing and continuing life..
  2. ^ Lapidus - Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman Relationships in ... 0739129988 "On the genre characterization of “Farewell to Matyora,” see Teresa Polowy, The Novellas of Valentin Rasputin: Genre, Language ... Polowy claims that “Farewell to Matyora” combines elements of tragedy and is a sort of modern myth;".