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The most famous of the ‘village prose’ writers and, to many, the best living Soviet writer, Valentin Grigor’evich Rasputin was born on 15 March 1937 in a village on the Angara river, 300 miles from the Siberian city of Irkutsk. After finishing his studies at the history and philosophy departments of Irkutsk University in 1959, Rasputin worked as a journalist.
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Works and Secondary Literature in English
Money for Maria, Soviet Literature, 1969, no. 4.
‘French Lesson’, Soviet Literature, 1975, no. 1. This story is also reprinted in Soviet Russian Stories of the 1960s and 1970s (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977).
Live and Remember (New York: Macmillan, 1978).
Farewell to Matyora (New York: Macmillan, 1979).
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Shneidman, Norman N., Soviet Literature in the 1970s: Artistic Diversity and Ideological Conformity (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1979). Includes a chapter on Rasputin.
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McLaughlin, S. (1989). Valentin Rasputin. In: McLaughlin, S. (eds) The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20371-0_4
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