Food is a tricky subject, as there are a lot of viable candidates for inclusion – so many that I toyed with the idea of doing a top twenty, but that’s a cop out, so I’ve had to whittle it down, and some exceptional works have missed the cut. I’ll say a bit more about […]
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Top ten food in Russian literature
Posted by Sarah Young on June 16, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/06/16/top-ten-food-in-russian-literature/
Top ten beards in Russian literature
I know I said I’d write another post about Mapping Petersburg, but I’m still thinking about that, so in the mean time, another top ten. But this time it is not the works, but the writers themselves, and specifically their facial adornments, that interest me. Beards, as Elif Batuman has affirmed, are hugely important to […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 20, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/20/top-ten-beards-in-russian-literature/
Mapping Petersburg
Over the last few months I have been working with John Levin on the pilot for a digital Russian literature project, and last week we launched the website, Mapping Petersburg: Experiments in Literary Cartography. The project aims to explore the role of Petersburg’s topography in shaping the literature for which the city is so famous, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 6, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/06/mapping-petersburg/
Russian Literature and the Big Society
It comes as something of a relief to learn that the Observer’s story about the government linking research council funding to the study of the Big Society turns out to be exaggerated, but given that our funding is at the mercy of the AHRC’s decisions about research themes, which in turn are dictated by their need […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 28, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/03/28/russian-literature-and-the-big-society/
Top Ten Animals in Russian Literature
As I have suggested previously, animals have a significant place in Russian literature, and I think this is quite unusual, probably reflecting the greater proximity of Russia literature to its folklore roots than is the case with other literary cultures. Although obviously children’s stories in English (as in other languages), are full of animal characters, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 4, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/03/04/top-ten-animals-in-russian-literature/
Top Ten Murders in Russian Literature
This is the first in a new occasional series in which I’ll look at different aspects of Russian literature through a ‘Top Ten’, and hopefully give people a few reading ideas. My main rule is that writers may only have one entry in any given list. Which makes my first subject slightly trickier than it […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 11, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/11/top-ten-murders-in-russian-literature/
An Interview with Robert Chandler
The Road, Robert Chandler’s new collection of translations of Vasily Grossman’s short stories and essays, will be published by MacLehose Press on 14th October 2010. On Monday 4th October at 6.30pm, he will be giving a talk about Grossman at Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, to mark the publication. Here I talk to Robert about Grossman’s writing […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 1, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/01/an-interview-with-robert-chandler/
Russkii vestnik 1865
These volumes of Russkii vestnik feature a number of literary works, from chapters from War and Peace and poetry by Fet, Tiutchev and Viazemsky, to the continuation of Wilkie Collins’s Armadale and, in the supplement, Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. There are historical articles on Alexander I after 1812, the Pugachevshchina, and Lomonosov and the Academy […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 15, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/15/russkii-vestnik-1865/
Russkii vestnik 1866
It’s hard to get beyond the literary contributions to Russkii vestnik for 1866, as it features both the first of Dostoevsky’s major novels, Crime and Punishment, and parts of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. There are also poems by Fet and A. K. Tolstoy, and two works by Boborykin, The World of Success and In a […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 8, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/08/russkii-vestnik-1866/
Russkii vestnik 1867
In 1867, Russkii vestnik published Turgenev’s novel Smoke, as well as two articles in Vladimir Dal”s series Pictures of Russian life and poetry by A. N. Maikov, A. A. Fet, and Count A. K. Tolstoy. A translation of the first part of Faust appears in the July issue. There are articles by Laroche, on the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 1, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/01/russkii-vestnik-1867/