4 episodes
Tales from Babushka's Bookshelf Sophie Elle
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A little taste of some big novels. Brought to you from San Francisco, CA.
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One year ago I left my twenty-something London life behind to start from scratch in California. I did it all for love...of literature! As a PhD student at UC Berkeley, I have just one year left to read one hundred Russophone novels, before facing some mammoth Master's exams, and I'm hoping that you might join me for the read! Together we'll explore the fantastical noses of Gogol, the lovelorn Annas and Pierres of Tolstoy, the strange talking cats of Bulgakov, as well as some Chekhovian seagulls for good measure.
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Anatoliy Kim- In Search of a Small Homeland- Epilogue
The final part of Kim's 2016 text, which asks after the place of home within one's understanding of self.
Please forgive my pronunciation errors!
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Pushkin and Lermontov frame the Caucasus
We discuss The Prisoner of the Caucasus and A Hero of Our Time
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The Government Inspector//Dead Souls
In our second episode we think about fraud, in both thematic and formal terms. We interrogate the generic singularities of two of Gogol's best loved works and think more about language and its role in deception.
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Evenings on a Farm near Dikhanka
The first of our episodes on the rascal, rogue and genius of Russian literature, Nikolai "The Nose" Gogol. Here we look at his first critically acclaimed work, a collection of tales inspired by his native Ukraine.