“The dead are people too.” Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the influence on nineteenth-century Russian literature of romantic and gothic sensibilities, and of fantastic writers from ETA Hoffmann to Edgar Allan Poe, the notion of the undead plays a significant role for some of the most prominent Russian writers. Encompassing not only […]
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Top ten undead in Russian literature
Posted by Sarah Young on April 3, 2013
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/04/03/top-ten-undead-in-russian-literature/
Dostoevsky: not so grim?
The recent stories about the murals at the new Dostoevsky metro station in Moscow, which have led to concerns that it could become a favourite spot for suicides, have made me think about why Dostoevsky is considered such a depressing writer. Is it because he depicts so much poverty and misery? I doubt it, because […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 24, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/06/24/dostoevsky-not-so-grim/