Farewell to Matyora
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] It is considered a classic example of the village prose literary movement.
The book was adapted into the 1983 film Farewell, directed by Elem Klimov.
References
[edit]- ^ Edward J. Brown, Russian Literature Since the Revolution (1982, 0674782046), p. 309: "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."
- ^ Rina Lapidus, Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman Relationships in the 19th and 20th Century Russian Novel (2008, 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."