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Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Russian literature --- Russian language --- Russian culture --- Literary Studies --- Linguistics --- russian literature --- russian language --- russian culture --- literary studies --- linguistics

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Sergey Gandlevsky's 2002 novel Illegible has a double time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorotov, a twenty-year-old poet living in Moscow in the 1970s, as well as his retrospective meditations thirty years later after most of his hopes have foundered. As the story begins, Lev is involved in a tortured affair with an older woman and consumed by envy of his more privileged friend and fellow beginner poet Nikita, one of the children of high Soviet functionaries who were known as "golden youth."In both narratives, Krivorotov recounts with regret and self-castigation the failure of a double infatuation, his erotic love for the young student Anya and his artistic love for the poet Viktor Chigrashov. When this double infatuation becomes a romantic triangle, the consequences are tragic.In Illegible, as in his poems, Gandlevsky gives us unparalleled access to the atmosphere of the city of Moscow and the ethos of the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, while at the same time demonstrating the universality of human emotion.

Fiction & Short Stories. --- contemporary Russian literature, Russian culture, Soviet dissident literature, samizdat, Russian poetry.

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Growing Out of Communism explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent transformation of the publishing industry. Lanoux, Herold, and Bukhina first consider the Soviet foundations of the new literature, then chart the influx of translated literature into Russia in the 1990s. In tracing the development of new literature that reflects the lived experiences of contemporary children and teens, the book examines changes to literary institutions, dominant genres, and archetypal heroes. Also discussed are the informal networks and online reader responses that reflect the views of child and teen readers.

Jugendkultur --- youth culture --- Kindheit --- childhood --- post-Soviet Russian culture --- post-sowjetische Kultur --- Literaturkanon --- literary canon --- Leseverhalten --- reading practices --- Indoktrinierung --- indoctrination

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This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky's oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches. Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the Great, literary theory, and Russian film. The articles are rooted in computational analysis, literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural history, and a host of other methodological and discursive modes. This collection provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the most fascinating figures of Russian letters but also a remarkable picture of the shape of Russian literary scholarship today.

Russian literature --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Zholkovskiĭ, A. K. --- Жолковский, А. К. --- Жолковский, Александр Константинович --- Zholkovskiĭ, Aleksandr Konstantinovich --- Zholkovsky, Alexander K. --- Zholkovskij, A. K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Avant-Garde. --- Modernism. --- Poetics. --- Russian culture. --- Russian literature. --- Structuralism.

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One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of reform to the mature masterpieces of Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the paintings of the Wanderers, Repin chief among them. By examining the classics of the tradition, Brunson explores the emergence of multiple realisms from the gaps, disruptions, and doubts that accompany the self-conscious project of representing reality. These manifestations of realism are united not by how they look or what they describe, but by their shared awareness of the fraught yet critical task of representation. By tracing the engagement of literature and painting with aesthetic debates on the sister arts, Brunson argues for a conceptualization of realism that transcends artistic media. Russian Realisms integrates the lesser-known tradition of Russian painting with the familiar masterpieces of Russia's great novelists, highlighting both the common ground in their struggles for artistic realism and their cultural autonomy and legitimacy. This erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history, and nineteenth-century realist movements.

Drawing --- Painting --- Russian literature --- Realist [modern European fine arts styles] --- drawings [visual works] --- Russian [culture or style] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Russian Federation --- Russia --- literatuur --- realisme --- Dostojewski, Fjodor --- Repin, Ilja --- Tolstoy, Lev --- 1840 - 1890 --- 19de eeuw --- Rusland --- literatuur. --- realisme. --- Tolstoy, Lev. --- Repin, Ilja. --- Dostojewski, Fjodor. --- 1840 - 1890. --- 19de eeuw. --- Rusland. --- Aesthetics, Russian --- Realism in art --- Realism in literature. --- Painting, Russian --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Lev Tolstoy, Ilya Repin, Fyofor Dostoevsky, paintings of the Wanderers, the Natural School, Russia's great novelists. --- veilingen. --- Rafaël. --- van Ostade, Adriaen. --- Gérôme, Jean-Léon. --- Millet, Jean-François. --- Van Gogh, Vincent. --- Brancusi, Constantin. --- Cassatt, Mary. --- Kooning, Willem de. --- Von Guérard, Eugene. --- Johns, Jasper.