The Town of N
 First edition | |
| Author | Leonid Dobychin |
|---|---|
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Publication date | 1935 |
The Town of N (Russian: Город Эн) is a 1935 novel by Leonid Dobychin. Although the town N takes its name from a town in Gogol's Dead Souls it is probably based on Dvinsk. The novel treats family, school life, first romance and Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War through the eyes of a boy. Publication of the novel in 1935 caused criticism leading to the author's death - disappearance and later recovery from the river.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ Leonid Dobychin, Richard C. Borden -Encounters with Lise and Other Stories Introduction Page xi 0810119722 2005 - Dobychin was just beginning to explore the spectrum of his gifts when the publication of The Town of N in 1935 triggered his demise.11 The Town of N is both a lyrical exploration of childhood myth- ...
- ^ Robert Chandler Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida- 2005 0141910240 Dobychin's stories and The Town of N., a short novel written in the voice of a child, have been compared to James Joyce's ...
- ^ Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 0198021690 Sheila Fitzpatrick - 1999 - The Muscovites had settled on an obscure young writer—L. I. Dobychin, author of a play called The Town of N— as sacrificial lamb. Some were worried about the impact of such sharp criticism on Dobychin; others about its impact on ..."
- ^ The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson - 2016 1137348399 Leonid Dobychin's 1935 novel Gorod N (The Town of N), thought to be based on Dvinsk (Latv. Daugavpils) where Dobychin spent his youth, gives a vivid picture of the linguistic and confessional diversity of late nineteenth-century Latgalia.