Category: Russian Literature

December 21, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Existentialism, the Russian Soul, and the Modern Metropolis

Ani Kodzhabasheva is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. “Only in Piter [St. Petersburg] may a man really know himself—whether he is a real human being, a half-human, or a swine. If he suffers here, he is a human being.”...

December 20, 2017

St. Petersburg, Capital of the Nineteenth Century

“Burkov House is the whole of Petersburg.” Alexei Remizov The protagonist of Sisters of the Cross, Marakulin, falls on hard times and leaves his nice apartment in the Burkov House to move into a rented room three floors up. This...

December 18, 2017

Book Giveaway! Sisters of the Cross

“Sisters of the Cross is a tale set in Burkov’s boardinghouse—a microcosm of Petersburg and the whole of Russia—filled with minor civil servants, wronged women, and holy wanderers, accident-prone circus artistes set to conquer the heart of Europe, the indifferent...

November 2, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Propaganda, the Absurd, and the Truth of Stalinist USSR in Andrei Platonov’s Plays

Welcome to Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD Candidate in Art History at Columbia University, considers Andrei Platonov’s portrayal of the USSR in relation to her experiences growing up in the former Eastern Bloc. In post-Communist Bulgaria,...

August 25, 2017

Capturing the tone in the translation of City Folk and Country Folk

Elaine Wilson, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University, on Nora Favorov’s translation of Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk.

August 24, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: City Folk and Country Folk as a Feminist Novel

This week Elaine Wilson, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University, introduces Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk as a 19th century feminist novel.

August 23, 2017

Ovcharov meets Nastasya Ivanovna: A City Folk and Country Folk excerpt

Read an excerpt from City Folk and Country Folk

August 22, 2017

The Russia of City Folk and Country Folk

Elaine Wilson delves into the historical backdrop of City Folk and Country Folk.

May 5, 2017

Art of Translation roundtable recap

Read a recap of the Art of Translation roundtable that took place on 5/2/2017 at Columbia University’s Harriman Center.

May 4, 2017

Thoughts on Rapture by Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich)

Read an article by Russian Library intern Veniamin Gushchin discussing RAPTURE, by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson.

May 3, 2017

Interview with Thomas J. Kitson, translator of Iliazd's Rapture

Today Veniamin Gushchin, CC ’18, Russian Library Intern interviews Thomas J. Kitson about his translation of Rapture by Iliazd

May 2, 2017

Brother Mocius’s Funeral

Read an excerpt from RAPTURE: A NOVEL, by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson!

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