Bogdanov's "Red Star"

[LeBlanc, Ronald]

Dear SEELANGers,

I regularly teach a course, "Humanities and Science," that focuses on 
artistic representations of the often troublesome relationship between human 
beings and the machines they create (especially robots).

This focus allows me to include Comp Lit texts such as Villiers's 
"Tomorrow's Eve" and Capek's "R.U.R." (as well as films such as "Metropolis" 
and "Modern Times"), but also works of early twentieth-century Russian 
literature such as Bogdanov's "Red Star," Zamyatin's "We," Mayakovsky's "The 
Bedbug," and Olesha's "Envy."

Bogdanov's novel has been available in English translation in a nicely 
translated and annotated paperback edition published by Indiana UP.  But 
that edition, alas, has now gone out of print.

At the AAASS conference in Salt Lake City this past week, I spoke with Janet 
Rabinowitch of IUP about the possibility of the Bogdanov edition being 
reprinted.  She is curious to know beforehand exactly what kind of academic 
demand there might be for this text.

If any of you have used, currently do us, or anticipate using at some point 
in the near future IUP's English-language version of Bogdanov's "Red Star" 
for a course you teach, would you please reply to me 
(ronald.leblanc at unh.edu) asap?

Thanks,

Ron



Ronald D. LeBlanc
Professor of Russian and Humanities
University of New Hampshire







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