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A Volga Tale by Yakhina (The Wife-The Daughter)
Major themes: Fairy tales, women with “K” names, justified societal shunning
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Solaris (1972) by Tarkovsky
Major themes: The only genre is film, ears: the road to the soul, “just be happy doing chores”
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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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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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An Out-Of-Tune Piano, An Accordion by Andrukhovych
Major themes: Dreams, Cats = good/bad?, “Diseased predator”
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On the Way: A Sketch by Khvoshchinskaya
Major Themes: Whose Interiority Was it Anyway?, Nostalgia, Childhood
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War and Peace Epilogues
Major themes: Better History, Questionable Theories, Live Laugh Love Levin
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