The Master and Margarita (chs. 10-18) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Referential mania, a theoretical Margarita, Is the Soviet Man actually new?
Signs and Symbols by Nabokov (w/ Drs. Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara)
Major themes: suspicious reading, open access
Office Hours - "Literary" fiction, bookstagram, and questionable takes
Major themes: What is fiction anyway?, Rodion “Richard” Raskolnikov, Suspicious Civil War literature
The Master and Margarita (chs. 1-9) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Speculating on currency, writing in the USSR, The Devil as chance
The Kreutzer Sonata with Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich
Major themes: Moral Tracts, suspicious reading, bad marriages
The Performance by Dovlatov
Major themes: The real no-termers, dirty reality & brilliant falsehood, theater of absurdity