"Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source ..."
"When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author whose novel The Master and Margarita would eventually bring him world renown achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes's knight. Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of ide ..."
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"Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) was published first work of Bakhtin – Art and Answerability that became his literary manifesto. in a variety of disciplines. To accomplish this task, sixteen scholars from 8 countries (USA, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, France, Russia, Chile and Japan) have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Mikhail Bakhtin will be discussed from ..."
"It is precisely from that vantage point that the secondary author surveys and
delineates the heroes and events in the story as a whole. While in the U.S.,
Bogoraz met many Russian Jews and familiarized himself with the problems of
their life in immigration. Much like his fellow writer and friend Abraham Cahan,
then, he could travel into their horizon of seeing much more easily than he could “
see” the world from the position of a Bl ..."
"into a mob, and descends on the defenseless man with the viciousness and
speed ofa lynch gang. He survives the attack, and emerges asthe moral victor.
Itdoes not matter thatthe men and women present atthe meeting immediately ...
from his forests”, languishes away and eventually dies in Charleston from“toska i
pechal'” (“anguish and sorrow”) (Soedinenie p. 202). At thesame time,as the “
objective” narrator of his travel accounts hast ..."
"The Duvakin Interviews, 1967–1974 Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova, Irina Evdokimova. books to date: Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing (2011), Mikhail Bulgakov's Don Quixote (2014), and Mikhail Bakhtin ... Dmitry Sporov is a ..."
"This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point ..."
"This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point ..."