Last week I went to see a production of Crime and Punishment by the Ashes and Diamonds Theatre Company at the Oubliette squat in Mayfair (their website is currently being upgraded so hopefully there will be something to see there soon). The production was a bit of a mixed bag, but overall I liked it […]
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Crime and Punishment in a squat
Posted by Sarah Young on January 13, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/01/13/crime-and-punishment-in-a-squat/
The problem with Solzhenitsyn
Not entirely in the festive spirit, I’ve been reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Invisible Allies (trans. Alexis Klimoff and Michael Nicholson; London: Harvill, 1997) with my usual set of mixed feelings. He’s not the greatest writer the world has ever seen, but he is very readable. Last time I read The Gulag Archipelago in full, I couldn’t […]
Posted by Sarah Young on December 31, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/12/31/the-problem-with-solzhenitsyn/
Four short links: Dostoevsky
1. The Complete Works of Dostoevsky. A really pioneering website; the concordance and Gospel, with Dostoevsky’s textual markers, are a must for any scholar. It’s been around for years, and used to be very slow (in the late nineties when I was working on my PhD, searches were best conducted after midnight — at other […]
Posted by Sarah Young on December 27, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/12/27/four-short-links-dostoevsky/
Not thrilled
Although I’m probably an intellectual snob in some ways, I’m quite happy to admit I enjoy a good thriller, particularly during term time when I get so exhausted that my bedtime reading has to be fairly undemanding. And given my fascination with all things Russian, I like reading about Russia in my spare time as […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 12, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/11/12/not-thrilled/
My work (3)
The articles and papers section (see list on the right), has a new addition, Shalamov’s symbolism, which I presented at a conference a couple of years ago. This is an on-going piece of work and ultimately it will form the basis of one of the chapters of my book on Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales. Anyway, it […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 1, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/11/01/my-work-3/
Teaching Russian literature
One of the big dilemmas in teaching Russian literature at undergraduate level is the translation vs. original question. Clearly, most of us would like to see our students reading texts in the original, because there are always losses in translation, and because reading in the original helps develop language skills, but it presents various problems. […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 25, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/10/25/teaching-russian-literature/
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/