Question about lubki

[Marcus Levitt]

Dear Colleagues,
 
What is the difference between a lubok print of a complete story that is divided into panels, each with text and illustration, and a "lubochnyi roman" (that is commonly referred to as a "knizhka")?  Is it simply that the multi-sectioned print is folded and cut into a booklet, or are these different artifacts?  Schaarschmidt writes that lubok novels "ran from one to three printer's sheets of thirty-two pages each" (pp. 427-8 in "The Lubok Novels: Russia's Immortal Best Sellers," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature [Sept. 1982]), while the lubok story I am looking at is one sheet in eight panels.
 
Thanks for your help,
Marcus
 
 
 

Marcus Levitt, Associate Professor

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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