Heart and Dumka
12 hrs. 9 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexander Veltman
Author
Alexander Veltman
Narrator
Vladimir Malkov
Narrator
Vladimir Malkov
Description
The works of Alexander Veltman (1800—1870), writer, historian, scholar, archaeologist, and ethnographer, enjoyed great popularity in the 1830s and 1840s. Veltman’s literary talent was noted by Pushkin and Belinsky, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. The novel “Heart and Dumka” (1838) plays a special role in the writer’s work, marking the transition from his early fantasy-romantic novels to works of a realist orientation. Attracting with its clearly expressed humanistic focus, the novel at the same time demonstrates the characteristic artistic features of Veltman the prose writer: vivid sketches of life in the Russian provinces and capitals; a whimsical plot with a skillful interweaving of fantasy and everyday life; apt figurative characterizations; humor, at times gentle and at times mischievous; an original, unusual language, style, and the very tone of a semi-fairytale parable-like narrative.
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