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  • The Gulag Archipelago

    The Authorized Abridgement

    The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that ... Read more

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  • Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. The plot of Crime and Punishment is probably familiar to many. An impoverished former student, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov lives in St. Petersburg. Raskolnikov is a nihilist, driven by a utilitarian ... Read more

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  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.**LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, ... Read more

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  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]

    An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible to ... Read more

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  • Music from a Speeding Train

    Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

    Series Book 171 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of dire poverty, disillusionment, radicalism, and nihilism interwoven with religious faith and utopianism. In Dostoevsky's ... Read more

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  • Aesthetik des Schwingens

    by Peter Zajac ...
    Series Book 7 - Schriftenreihe der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Series of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
    Das Thema der Monographie sind nichtlineare Prozesse, Oszillationen, Resonanzen, Pulsierungen und Schwingungen in Literatur und Kultur, die Edmund Burke als sublim und Immanuel Kant als erhaben bezeichnet haben und für die Walter Benjamin den Begriff der Jetztzeit, Theodor W. Adorno der apparition und Karl Heinz Bohrer den der Plötzlichkeit verwenden. Es handelt sich dabei oft um latente Prozesse, ... Read more

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  • Mehrdeutigkeit uebersetzen

    Englische und franzoesische Kinderliteraturklassiker der Nachkriegszeit in deutscher Uebertragung

    by Agnes Blümer ...
    Series Book 106 - Kinder- und Jugendkultur, -literatur und -medien
    Viele englisch- und französischsprachige Kinderliteraturklassiker waren an Erwachsene und Kinder zugleich gerichtet, was in den Ausgangskulturen für selbstverständlich gehalten wurde. Galt dies auch noch für ihre Übertragung ins Deutsche? Agnes Blümer unterzieht sechs Klassiker der kinderliterarischen Phantastik der Nachkriegszeit sowie ihre Übersetzungen einer eingehenden literatur- und ... Read more

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  • Notes from the Underground

    Fyodor Dostoevsky's Existential Manifesto on Free Will, Suffering, and Human Contradiction

    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    ️ "I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man." So begins one of the most unsettling and powerful monologues in literature. Notes from Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's philosophical tour de force—a bold rejection of rationalism and utopian thinking, narrated by an unnamed, bitter, and self-loathing narrator . Set in St. Petersburg, this novella shatters Enlightenment optimism and dives deep into the ... Read more

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  • Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism

    Ivan Konevskoi: Wise Child of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi poet, thinker, mystic for many decades the lost genius of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into the currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s. A passionate searcher for immortality, he developed his own version of pantheism meant to guard ... Read more

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  • Étude sur Le maître et Marguerite

    Series series Feuillets : économie politique moderne
    Publié un quart de siècle après la mort de son auteur, Le Maître et Marguerite a pris place parmi les grands textes de la littérature mondiale. Ce travail se propose de retracer la genèse d’un texte qui accompagna son auteur durant la plus grande partie de sa vie d’écrivain, de cerner l’essentiel de ses innombrables points d’ancrage dans la culture européenne. Nous nous efforçons également de ... Read more

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  • Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Grundschule in den Bundeslaendern Deutschlands

    Eine Bestandsaufnahme des Status quo und seiner gewuenschten Weiterentwicklung

    Die Studie zum Fremdsprachenunterricht in deutschen Grundschulen bietet einen Überblick über Bundesländergrenzen hinweg in eine heterogene Bildungslandschaft, die von erheblichen curricularen Unterschieden und Widersprüchen geprägt ist.Neben dieser Bestandsaufnahme zeigen die Autoren auf, welche bildungspolitischen und fachdidaktischen Ausgestaltungen Fachleute aus Hochschulen, Landesinstituten ... Read more

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  • Alternative Kinships

    Economy and Family in Russian Modernism

    by Jacob Emery ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    According to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary ... Read more

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  • Souvenirs

    Enfance — Adolescence — Jeunesse ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

    Series series Oeuvres de Léon Tolstoï
    Ce classique de la littérature de l’enfance a été écrit par un très jeune homme pour qui le souvenir n’est pas lié à la nostalgie, à l’attendrissement poétique, mais qui voit dans l’écriture le seul moyen de se libérer de ses chaînes et d’aborder l’âge d’homme.D’où le ton si particulier de ce livre, sa tension, son étrange et presque aveuglante vérité, son parfum de fraises sauvages. Enfance, ... Read more

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  • Весь Тургенев в одном томе. Стихотворения, статьи, наброски.

    Собрание сочинений И. С. Тургенева в десяти томах представляет собой масштабную литературную антологию, открывающую читателю многогранный мир одного из ключевых русских писателей XIX века. Издание позволяет не просто познакомиться с хрестоматийными текстами, но и проследить творческую эволюцию автора – от романтических опытов юности до философских прозрений зрелости. В томах последовательно ... Read more

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  • Reading Novels Translingually

    Twenty-First-Century Case Studies

    by Julie Hansen ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
    This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism and ... Read more

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  • The Prison-House of Language

    A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

    Series series Princeton Essays in Literature
    A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these ... Read more

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  • Atheism

    Translated by Jeff Love ...
    One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojève wrote a great deal, he published very little in his lifetime, and so the ongoing rediscovery of his work continues to present new challenges to philosophy and political theory ... Read more

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  • Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words

    Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the complex relationship between life and words as guiding framework, the volume offers fresh approaches to Slouching Towards ... Read more

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  • Le Gouffre et Dans le brouillard de Leonide Andreïev

    Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisMalgré quelques rééditions de traductions anciennes (citons en particulier Le Mensonge, nouvelles traduites par Serge Persky et Teodor de Wyzewa, Phébus, 1994), on lit peu en France l'œuvre narrative de Leonide Andreïev, mieux connu comme dramaturge. Le Gouffre (1998) et Dans le brouillard (1999), les deux premiers volumes des Récits ... Read more

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  • Demons

    Unabridged Edition

    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    Set in mid 19th-century Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting ... Read more

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  • The Insulted and the Injured

    Series series Fyodor Dostoevsky - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Humiliated and Insulted , also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult, is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.[Plot introduction]Narrated by a young author, Vanya, who has just released his first novel which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoyevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk, i... ... Read more

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  • inklings – Jahrbuch fuer Literatur und Aesthetik

    Die Inklings und der Erste Weltkrieg. Symposium 17. und 18. September 2016 in Aachen

    Series Book 34 - inklings
    «Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen nahestehender Autoren sowie der Analyse des Phantastischen in Literatur, Film und Kunst allgemein. Ihre Jahrestagungen werden in ... Read more

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  • Aux compagnons de l’Association Internationale des Travailleurs au Locle et à La Chaux-de-Fonds

    Amis et frères,Avant de quitter vos montagnes, j’éprouve le besoin de vous exprimer encore une fois, par écrit, ma gratitude profonde pour la réception fraternelle que vous m’avez faite. N’est-ce pas une chose merveilleuse qu’un homme, un Russe, un ci-devant noble, qui jusqu’à cette dernière heure vous a été parfaitement inconnu, et qui a mis pour la première fois le pied dans votre pays, à peine ... Read more

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