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The Master and Margarita (chs. 10-18) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Referential mania, a theoretical Margarita, Is the Soviet Man actually new?
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Queer Nabokov
Nabokov’s writing—complicated, conflicted, historically juicy—remains a worthy locus of attention and a source of immense hermeneutic joy, for the reader, critic, teacher, student.
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Signs and Symbols by Nabokov (w/ Drs. Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara)
Major themes: suspicious reading, open access
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Office Hours - "Literary" fiction, bookstagram, and questionable takes
Major themes: What is fiction anyway?, Rodion “Richard” Raskolnikov, Suspicious Civil War literature
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The Master and Margarita (chs. 1-9) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Speculating on currency, writing in the USSR, The Devil as chance
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The Kreutzer Sonata with Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich
Major themes: Moral Tracts, suspicious reading, bad marriages
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The Performance by Dovlatov
Major themes: The real no-termers, dirty reality & brilliant falsehood, theater of absurdity
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Leviathan (2014) by Zvyagintsev
Major themes: “It’s a bleak boy,” Job’s lament, God in silence
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A Danse Macabre, Experiencing Death in An Out-Of-Tune Piano, An Accordion
For me, death has always been simply: “oh.” That’s all there’s left to say, really. Oh, he’s dead. Oh, when was the last time I talked to her? Oh. Oh oh oh. “Oh,” is all I can say in response to something that’s already happened. Nothing can be changed. It can only be reacted to.
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An Out-Of-Tune Piano, An Accordion by Andrukhovych
Major themes: Dreams, Cats = good/bad?, “Diseased predator”
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What No One Told You About Russia's Women Authors
Have you ever wondered where Russia's women writers were in the nineteenth century? Well, as it turns out,
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On the Way: A Sketch by Khvoshchinskaya
Major Themes: Whose Interiority Was it Anyway?, Nostalgia, Childhood
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