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Offers readers a biographical introduction, and analyses of the structure and the main themes of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. More curious readers will also enjoy the accounts of the novel's writing and publication history, alongside analyses of the work's astonishing linguistic complexity.
Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow's artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, he became visible to a broader Russian audience only in the mid-1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic expectations of traditionally minded readers.
This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece The Nose. The book focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, and presents an overview of major critical approaches to the story in Gogol scholarship.
This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece The Nose. The book focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, and presents an overview of major critical approaches to the story in Gogol scholarship.
Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin¿s oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium.
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