Wednesday, 15 February 2012

UPSC-CSE Main Exam Syllabus Russian Paper 2


RUSSIAN
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Russian )
(Literature)
Section-A
Literary History and Literary Criticism Literary movements, Sentimentalism, Romanticism,  Naturalism, Realism, Critical Realism, Socialism, Acmeism, Symbolism, Futurism; Origin and development of literary genres : Folk literature, Lyrics and poems - A.S. Pushkin, M.U.  Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Esenin, V. Mayakovky, Anna Akhmatova. Epic-L.N. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, Short story, novelet, novels- Pushkin, Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, S. Shchedrin, I. Goncharov, I. Turgenev, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, M. Gorky, M. Sholokhov, I. Bunin, E. Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak, A. Solzhenitsyn, M. Bulgakov, Chingiz Aitmatov, V.  Rasputin, V. Shukshin, Criticism- Belinsky, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Drama-Chekhov, Gogol. Influence of socio-political  movements on literature.

Section-B

This part will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be  designed to test the candidates’ critical ability.
1. A.S. Pushkin Evgeny Onegin
2. M.U. Lermontov Hero of our times
3. N.V. Gogol Revizor
4. I.S. Turgenev Fathers and sons
5. F.M. Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
6. L.N. Tolstoy i. War and Peace
ii. Resurrection
7. A.P. Chekhov i. Toska
ii. Smert Chinovnika
iii. Chameleon
8. A.M. Gorky Mother
9. A. Blok The twelve
10. B.B. i. Cloud in plants
Mayakovsky ii. Good
11. M. Sholokhov Fate of a man
12. B. Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
13. Solzhenitsyn One day in the life of
Ivan Danisovich
14. V. Rasputin Zhivi i Pomni
15. Chingiz Aitmatov Bely Porokhod
16. V. Shukshin Chudik

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