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by FIODOR DOSTOÏEVSKI
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Publié en Russie en 1875, L’Adolescent est l’avant-dernier roman de Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, et incontestablement le plus méconnu de ses cinq grands romans ( Crime et Châtiment, L’Idiot, Les Démons et Les Frères Karamazov).
Rien ne justifie...
by Irene Masing-Delic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gorkii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between culture and civilization and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is...
Commiserating with Devastated Things
Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls “the universe of the novel.” Working through Kundera’s oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms—not applies—philosophical reflection within literature.
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Insomniac Dreams
Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time—and placed in biographical and literary context
On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions...
by Jan Brokken
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In De Kozakkentuin beschrijft Jan Brokken de bijzondere vriendschap tussen Alexander von Wrangel en Fjodor Michaïlovitsj Dostojevski. De levensgeschiedenis van de familie Von Wrangel werd door Brokken eerder beschreven in zijn magistrale Baltische zielen. De nazaten van de familie attendeerden Brokken...
Reading Chekhov
A Critical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St....
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
"We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the...
Strange Soviet Practices
Documentary Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
How was it possible that an entire country could live in mute fear? Why did Soviet intellectuals denounce on another an conspire with the authorities to brainwash ordinary people? Why did Soviet submarines sink and nuclear power stations explode? This collection answers to some extent, the questions...
At the Crossroads: 18651918
A History of the Polish Intelligentsia Part 3, Edited by Jerzy Jedlicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. The third part deals with the period between 1865 and 1918. It is the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia, growth of its self-consciousness...
by Mikhail Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
In a style reminiscent of Anton Chekhov himself--realistic, intimate, and dynamic--Mikhail Chekhov shares unparalleled memories and insights, transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. He visits the places where his brother lived and worked and introduces the people he knew and loved,...
Modernism in Kyiv
Jubilant Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
The study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre of performing and visual arts as well...
Dossier K
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize–winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—with himself
Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature—an attempt...
by Michal Glowinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany to the obfuscating newspeak of communist Poland, finding certain common characteristics. Above all, totalitarian speech in...
Notes from Underground
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Notes from Underground , also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed...