Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exile Soviet dissident writer whose works have been compared to fabulists like Kafka and Borges. Tertz's settings are exotic but... Læs mere
Offers the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era.... Læs mere
The first full-length study of the Nova Reperta (New Discoveries), a renowned series of prints designed by Johannes Stradanus during the late 1580s in... Læs mere
Shows how one of the standard issues of analytic philosophy - realism and anti-realism - has also been at the heart of continental philosophy.... Læs mere
This is a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that demonstrate the degree to which ancient Russian fairy-tale fantasies acquired political and historical meanings during the catastrophic twentieth century.
Offers a collection of essays on a range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers.... Læs mere
Offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous... Læs mere
In Robert Bowie's translation, with annotations and a critical afterword, this collection of Ivan Bunin's work affords readers of English an opportunity for a... Læs mere
Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from “real” politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as “pure” or “only theater.” But the... Læs mere