The other main focus of my current research is Gulag literature, particularly the short stories of Varlam Shalamov. I’ll write more about him soon, and post some of my work, but first I have a couple of observations to make on the use of the term ‘Gulag’ itself. The assimilation of foreign words into a language […]
Gulag: Note to writers and editors (1)
Posted by Sarah Young on September 7, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/09/07/gulag-note-to-writers-and-editors-1/
Blogs are the newspapers of Dostoevsky’s day
One of the aims of this blog is to bring you the latest news and views from the world of Dostoevsky studies. Everybody knows that hardly anyone, my students included, actually bothers to read Dostoevsky, as this article from The Onion*, Film Adaptation Of “The Brothers Karamazov” Ends Where Most People Stop Reading The Book, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 22, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/08/22/blogs-are-the-newspapers-of-dostoevskys-day/
