This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject.
The 1980s witnessed the ascendancy of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic... Læs mere
This book examines recent innovations in Polish film. The authors analyzes the ways in which Polish directors challenge revered images of national and gender identity, the country’s historical martyrdom, the benevolent family, and the status of the influential Catholic Church.