I can’t see Tolstoy wearing a pink pussy hat.
Continue reading...Candid about the Camera: Tolstoy Scholars on Adapting Anna Karenina
Ani Kokobobo
Vegans vs. Sausage-Wielding Nationalists; or, How I Miffed Your Motherland
Eliot Borenstein
Vegans: occasionally self-righteous but well-meaning advocates of good health and animal welfare, or traitors to the Motherland? And why would post-Soviet nationalists see seitan as a path to Satan?
Continue reading...Marital Happy Endings and Cultural Politics in a Contemporary Australian Adaptation of Anna Karenina
Ani Kokobobo
In our time, there is a definite expectation that people know what they want and ensure their own happiness.
Continue reading...Sex secrets of the Russian classics
Eliot Borenstein
Reason #137 to study Russian literature: apparently, it will teach children about sex. This is a good thing, because no one else in Russia seems to want to.
Continue reading...Andrei Zorin’s Sandglass
Anastasia Little
All creative works are autobiographical, but they are autobiographical in their own way.
As part of NYU’s commemoration of the War of 1812, the Jordan Center was pleased to welcome Andrei Zorin last Friday, to present an engaging talk on the problems of ruptures, ends, continuities and discontinuities in history and in Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace. While he was mostly concerned with the subject of time in the novel, Zorin also made a case for reading the novel as a personal experience for Tolstoy rather than as a national epic.
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