''Farewell to Matyora'' (russian: Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novel by

Valentin Rasputin Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (; russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 193714 March 2015) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's w ...

. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of

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and

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life.Rina Lapidus, ''Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman Relationships in the 19th and 20th Century Russian Novel'' (2008, 0739129988): "On the genre characterization of ''Farewell to Matyora,'' see Teresa Polowy, ''The Novellas of Valentin Rasputin: Genre, Language'' ... Polowy claims that ''Farewell to Matyora'' combines elements of tragedy and is a sort of modern myth." It is considered a classic example of the

village prose Village Prose (russian: Деревенская проза, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. ...

literary movement. The book was adapted into the 1983 film '' Farewell'', directed by

Elem Klimov Elem Germanovich Klimov (russian: link=no, Элем Германович Климов; 9 July 1933 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, and was married to film dire ...

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{{reflist 1976 Russian novels Soviet novels Russian novels adapted into films