Help with lit/film question

[Anne Fisher]

Hello SEELANGers, 

I would like your help compiling a list of Slavic and East European literature
and film featuring things coming to life. “Coming to life” is understood
broadly – any exhibition of volition, independence, or sentience, whether it is
“real” or just in someone’s imagination. My list so far consists almost
entirely of body parts, which count, I suppose, as things: Gogol’ (The Nose),
Olesha (Envy), Gombrowicz (Ferdydurke), Aleshkovsky (Kangaroo), and one
borderline case – the film Brilliantovaia ruka. 

If any of you have something to add to the list, please email me off-line. I
will compile answers and send the result to the group. Thank you!

Happy New Year to all (and enjoy the snow, if applicable), 

Annie Fisher


-- 
"You can compare the Pushkin monument and a tram, but not Pushkin and a 
tram." - V. Favorsky, 1957

Anne Fisher
University of Michigan Slavic Department
phone: (734) 764-5355
fax: (734) 647-2127
email: aof at umich.edu

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