Library of World Literature
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The Library of World Literature (Russian: Библиотека всемирной литературы; Transliteration: Biblioteka vsemirnoi literaturi; ABBREVIATION БВЛ / BVL) is a 200-volume Soviet book series dedicated to world literature, published in the years 1967 to 1977 by the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya literatura" in the USSR.[citation needed][1]
It was the most ambitious, centralised, and best-funded effort to date to transform the workings of literary production, and consumption both in the Soviet Union and worldwide.[2]
Numerous scholars and translators have contributed to the series. The volumes are provided with detailed thematic introductions, commentaries and illustrations.
The series ranges over the literary works of various epochs and civilisations, including the literature of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries (Series One), the 19th century (Series Two), and the 20th century (Series Three). Several volumes are devoted to British, Australian and American writers. For example, Volume 192, published in 1975 in 303,000 copies, includes William Faulkner's "Light in August" (1932) and "The Mansion" (1960). The illustrations were done by Vitali Goryayev.[citation needed][3]
A catalogue of the Library of World Literature was published in 1979.[4]
Illustrations[edit]
More than 100 Soviet artists participated in the illustrating of The Library of World Literature, including Vladimir Favorsky, Kukryniksy, Aleksandr Gerasimov.[citation needed][5]
Catalogue[edit]
Series One. Literature of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries[edit]
Ancient East[edit]
- № 1. Poetry and Prose of Ancient East: «Epic of Gilgamesh» (1973)
- № 2. «Mahabharata». «Ramayana» (1974)
Ancient Greece and Rome[edit]
- № 3. Homer: «Iliad», «Odyssey» (1967)
- № 4. Poetry of Ancient Greece and Rome (Homer, Alсaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Sappho, Pindar, Plato, Theocritus, Callimachus, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, Horace, Seneca, Martial, Ausonius) (1968)
- № 5. Drama of Ancient Greece and Rome. Aeschylus: «The Persians», «Prometheus Bound» / Sophocles: «Oedipus Rex», «Antigone» / Euripides: «Medea», «Hippolytus» / Aristophanes: «The Clouds», «Peace» / Menander: «Dyskolos» / Plautus: «Menaechmi» / Terence: «Andria» / Seneca: «Octavia» (1970)
- № 6. Virgil: «Bucolics». «Georgics». «Aeneid» (1971)
- № 7. Achilles Tatius «Leucippe and Clitophon» / Longus «Daphnis and Chloe» / Petronius «Satyricon» / Apuleius «Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass» (1969)
The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th century[edit]
- № 8. Icelandic sagas. Irish sagas. (1973)
- № 9. «Beowulf» / «Poetic Edda» / «Nibelungenlied» (1975)
- № 10. «Song of Roland» / «Li coronemenz Loois» / «Charroi de Nimes» / «The Song of my Cid» / Romancero (1976)
- № 11. The songs of Southern Slavs (1976)
- № 12. «Kalevala» (1977)
- № 13. Oral epic poems of people of the USSR. Vol.1 (1975)
- № 14. Oral epic poems of people of the USSR. Vol.2 (1975)
- № 15. «Miscellany», the medieval literature of Russia. (1969)
- № 16. The classical poetry of India, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan. (1977)
- № 17. Classical drama of East (1976)
- № 18. Classical prose of Far East. (1975)
- № 19. «One Thousand and One Nights» (1975)
- № 20. Arabian poetry of Middle Ages (1975)
- № 21. Persian and Tajik poetry (Rudaki, Nasir Khusraw, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi Shirazi, Hafez, Jami) (1974)
- № 22. Medieval chivalric romances and novels: Chrétien de Troyes «Yvain, the Knight of the Lion» / «Tristan and Iseult» / «Aucassin and Nicolette» / Wolfram von Eschenbach «Parzival» / Hartmann von Aue «Der arme Heinrich» (1974)
- № 24. Ferdowsi: «Shahnameh» (1972)
- № 28. Dante Alighieri: «La Vita Nuova». «Divine Comedy» (1967)
- № 29. Giovanni Boccaccio: «The Decameron» (1970)
- № 35. François Rabelais: «Gargantua and Pantagruel» (1973)
- № 36. William Shakespeare: «Romeo And Juliet», «Hamlet», «Othello», «King Lear», «Macbeth», «Anthony and Cleopatra», Sonnets (1968)
- № 45. John Milton: «Paradise Lost» (1976)
Series Two. Literature of XIX century[edit]
- № 68. Honoré de Balzac: «Lost Illusions»
- № 70. Ivan Vazov: «Under the Yoke» (1970)
- № 77. Ivan Goncharov: «Oblomov» (1973)
- № 83. Fyodor Dostoevsky: «Crime and Punishment» (1970)
- № 84. Fyodor Dostoevsky: «The Brothers Karamazov» (1973)
Series Three. Literature of XX century[edit]
- № 132. Louis Aragon: «La Semaine Sainte» (1976)
- № 144. Jaroslav Hašek: «The Good Soldier Švejk» (1967)
- № 150. Theodore Dreiser: «An American Tragedy» (1969)
- № 160. Jack London: «Martin Eden», Short stories (1972)
- № 165. Thomas Mann: «Buddenbrooks» (1969)
- № 165. Bernard Shaw: Plays (1969)
References[edit]
- ^ Каталог Библиотеки всемирной литературы [Catalogue of Library of World Literature] (in Russian). Москва: "Художественная литература". 1979. p. 153.
- ^ "The Soviet Project of World Literature and its Legacies - ZfL Berlin". www.zfl-berlin.org. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ Каталог Библиотеки всемирной литературы [Catalogue of Library of World Literature] (in Russian). Москва: "Художественная литература". 1979. p. 73.
- ^ "Путеводитель по справочным и библиографическим ресурсам. Литературоведение". nlr.ru. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ Каталог Библиотеки всемирной литературы [Catalogue of Library of World Literature] (in Russian). Москва: "Художественная литература". 1979. p. 159.
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