Polemic essays about Pushikn's persona in traditional literary criticism.

A big collection of literary feuilletons.

The collection presents 24 authors with introduction, bibliography, and an abridged play.

Psychological and hermeneutic analysis of Vysotsky's texts, letters, and his personality.

This is a collection of essays about the relationship of the writer with the culture aborad. Zinik writes about Russian literature from the times of iron curtain and to the present days.

The monograph is devoted to folklore and literary archetypes in the poetics of N. V. Gogol. For the first time in Gogol studies, the role of archetypes of folk ritual culture in the poetics of the writer is comprehensively studied, folklore archetypes in the late works of N. V. Gogol are systematically considered, the issue of the methods and techniques for implementing biblical and medieval...

‘Commentary’ includes both general articles that reveal the peculiarities of the noble life of Pushkin’s era, the internal chronology of the novel, the history of its creation, the problem of prototypes, and two types of explanations: textual ones (explaining the meaning of archaic words, lost realities and literary reminiscences) and conceptual ones (analyzing the structural features of the...

The book examines the process of forming literature as a cultural institution in Western Europe in the 19th century and reveals the relationship between two seemingly distant phenomena of cultural life: the 'bourgeois century' and the 'literature age'. The focus of the study is the figure of the bourgeois reader, who turned out to be paradoxically involved in both market-exchange and aesthetic...

The book examines the non-artistic works of Leo Tolstoy: diaries, correspondence, Confession, autobiographical excerpts and the treatise So what do we do?. This is an analysis of how throughout life Tolstoy tried to describe and define his creating a story adequate in structure to the very process of being - not literature, but a kind of book of life.

With a deep semantic unity, the prose of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is distinguished by an amazing poetic variety. In the early 1960s, this was felt by the readers of the first published stories of an unexpectedly great, truly new writer: One Day by Ivan Denisovich was followed by strongly dissimilar with him The Case at Kochetovka Station and Matryonin Dvor. Every time new artistic...

Vladimir Sorokin is one of the most prominent representatives of Russian postmodernism, whose texts often evoke a stormy reader and critical reaction due to the abundance of obscene vocabulary, scenes of sex and violence. In his monograph, the German Russianist Dirk Uffelmann for the first time analyzes all the main works of Vladimir Sorokin - from The Queue and The Roman to The Snowstorm and...

Es ging rasend schnell. Der Februar 1933 war der Monat, in dem sich auch für die Schriftsteller in Deutschland alles entschied. Uwe Wittstock erzählt von Tag zu Tag, wie das glanzvolle literarische Leben der Weimarer Zeit in wenigen Wochen einem langen Winter wich und sich das Netz für Thomas Mann und Bertolt Brecht, für Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Döblin und viele andere immer fester zuzog.