Eye-to-eye with power figures. Essays on Russian literature
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The collection of essays by the distinguished scholar Professor Alexander Zholkovsky is devoted to a detailed reading of Russian literature in the context of world classics. The author analyzes texts from the folklore and the Bible as well as by Plato, J.Swift, P.Corneille, P.Beaumarchais, E.Hoffmann, B.Russell, M.Kundera, A.Pushkin, M.Lermontov, F.Dostoevsky, L.Tolstoy, N.Leskov, A.Chekhov, I.Bunin, A.Averchenko, A.Akhmatova, O.Mandelstam, N.Zabolotsky, M.Zoshchenko, A.Platonov, V.Nabokov, M.Bulgakov, V.Kaverin, A.Solzhenitsyn, A.Siniavsky, A.Terts, V. Aksenov, etc. Each essay focuses on the motif which is analyzed in terms of the interaction of its major levels: semantic, structural and intertextual.
