Life's Trifles. A Woman's Lot
26 hrs. 7 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Avdotya Panaeva
Author
Avdotya Panaeva
Narrator
Irina Patrakova
Narrator
Alexander Dunin
Description
This edition includes two novels by Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva (1820–1893)—“Little Things of Life” (1854) and “A Woman’s Lot” (1862), which have not been reissued since their first publications. Against the backdrop of rapid social changes, the writer offers her own interpretation of the “woman question,” providing a rare perspective for her time. At the center are women whose drive for personal happiness collides with domestic despotism, class-based expectations, and the cold indifference of those around them. Panaeva also accurately depicts male hypocrisy: loud speeches about freedom and equality often prove to be nothing more than a cover for new ways of humiliation and control. These subtle and incisive texts help readers see Russian classics in a broader and more profound light.
“Now, when women’s voices in literature sound especially confident and loud, it is worth opening up again to a nearly forgotten author—one who was long regarded above all as a ‘muse’ and a ‘memoirist.’ Panaeva’s heroines are not only children of their age: with careful reading, it becomes clear that much of what they experience is still, for women, almost unchanged.”
Maria Nesterenko, a researcher of women’s literature.
Compiled by Pavel Uspensky and Andrey Fedotov.
“Now, when women’s voices in literature sound especially confident and loud, it is worth opening up again to a nearly forgotten author—one who was long regarded above all as a ‘muse’ and a ‘memoirist.’ Panaeva’s heroines are not only children of their age: with careful reading, it becomes clear that much of what they experience is still, for women, almost unchanged.”
Maria Nesterenko, a researcher of women’s literature.
Compiled by Pavel Uspensky and Andrey Fedotov.
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