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Scène première TCHÉBOUKOF, LOMOF (Lomof entre : il est en frac et ganté de blanc.) Tchéboukof, s’empressant au-devant de lui Enfin, le voici, ce cher Ivan Vassiliévitch ! Que je suis heureux ! (Il lui serre les deux mains.) C’est ce qui...

Sense showcases a young, courageous author from Chechnya writing in the best traditions of Tolstoy and Turgenev. Of interest to the English-speaking reader is his intimate vision of a confused adolescent in a threatening and dangerous world. Arslan Khasavov shows the limits to which an indifferent, hypocritical society can push an idealistic, romantically-minded, well-meaning young person.

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead "Uncle's Dreams" is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.Dostoyevsky's inspiration for "The Meek Girl"...

LEO TOLSTOY, conscience-driven anarchist, soldier, pacifist, moral and religious teacher, environmentalist, war correspondent, and social reformer, etc., is considered to be one of the world’s finest writers. War and Peace and Anna Karénina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all...

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. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put...

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov’s last ‘comedy’ still ranks supreme as a human tragedy of dispossession with...

“Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work,...

In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson’s cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The “bond” of Sharon Cameron’s title refers to the astonishing...

Lecciones magistrales en las que Nabokov, un genio de la literatura, indaga en la obra de los grandes escritores del pasado. Vladimir Nabokov, exiliado de su país y con pocas esperanzas de regresar algún día, estaba capacitado como nadie para introducir a sus alumnos en la obra de los grandes...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis En 1962, un inconnu, Alexandre Soljénitsyne (1918-2008), envoie le manuscrit d’un récit écrit trois ans plus tôt à la revue soviétique réputée « libérale », Novy Mir (Monde nouveau). Une fiche de lecture...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Récits de la Kolyma (1978) occupent une place à part dans ce que l’on a pu appeler la « littérature concentrationnaire ». Tant par leur forme que par l’extrême aridité de leur contenu, ces récits constituent...

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical...

The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular...

The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In this first English monograph on contemporary Ukrainian...