Works and Criticism

This section examines specific literary works in a critical light. It also includes several academic works that examine literary history and/or the cultural significance of specific literature.

May 12, 2014

Worlds within Words: A Translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s ‘The Rosary’

“The creative legacy of Krzhizhanovsky, rising before our eyes entirely from nonexistence…is a unique case even in the history of our culture which, to put it lightly, has not stinted on the excommunication of artists who could have become its pride,” writes Vadim Perelmuter in the introduction to the first of five volumes of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s collected […]

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Accessible Art and Dialectic Potential: The Soviet Legacy in the Art community of Kyrgyzstan

Competing Conceptions of the Good Life in Anna Karenina

The Paradoxes of Vladimir Mayakovsky

The Control of Semantic Space: Bulgakov’s Challenge of the Stalinist Vision

How and Why Did the Focus of Samizdat Shift Following the End of the Khrushchev Thaw?

Rational Perversions of Love in The Brothers Karamazov: Spiritually Fruitless, yet Thematically Useful

Dostoevsky’s The Meek One: A Rebellious Reading

Dueling as a Commentary on Gambling and Risk Taking

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