moskovsky tekst

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Ornella,

My article on Pelevin's and Petrushevskaya's image of Moscow will be  
published next year (in English) and I could forward it to you in due  
course.

In addition to the list of works you've mentioned (penned by Lotman  
and Toporov) you might wish to consider some of these works (my list  
is not extensive, of course):

*Lilly, Ian. Moscow and Petersburg: The City in Russian Culture, Astra
Press: Nottingham, 2002.
*Olga Meerson. "Velimir Xlebnikov's Moskva, ty kto? and Andrei
Platonov's Happy Moscow: Identical Questions, with No Answers." Andrei
Platonov's Intertexts. Ed. Elena Kolesnikova. St. Petersburg:
Institute of Russian Literature, The Pushkin House / Pushkinskij dom,
2005.
* Smith, Alexandra. "A Case of Fluid Identity: Boris Pasternak as  
Flâneur and an
Invitation au Voyage", Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, band 58, 2006,
pp. 117-139. (I talk about Pasternak's strolls in Moscow in the 1910s).
*Smith, Alexandra. "Tsvetaeva's story 'The Chinaman' and its link with  
the Eurasian  Movement in Prague and in Paris in the 1920-30s",  The  
Soviet and
Post-Soviet Review, California, vol.28, No.3, 2001 [2002],  
pp.269-286.(I talk about Tsvetaeva's representation of Moscow in her  
story Kitaets)
*Smith, Alexandra. "The Return of the Flâneur in Platonov's Story  
'Doubting Makar'", in:  Livingstone, Angela, editor. ?Andrei Platonov:  
Special Issue, Volume  2, Essays in Poetics, volume 27, Keele, Autumn  
2002, pp.124-138. (I talk about Platonov's image of Moscow and compare  
some things to Benjamin).
*Chudakova's introduction to Chaianov's stories: Chaianov. A.
Romanticheskie povesti, Moscow: Ogonek, 1989. (there is also a very  
interesting article on Chaianov in one of the volumes of Tynianovskie  
chtenia: on the use of the fantastic in his works, I'll check the  
reference in my office and will let you know soon)
*Cooke, Olga Muller. "The Grotesque Style of Belyj's Moscow Novels",
The Slavic and East European Journal > Vol. 32, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988),  
pp. 399-414.
*Lilly, Ian K. "Moscow as City and Symbol in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago",
Slavic Review > Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 241-250.
*Gerhard Richter. "The Monstrosity of the Body in Walter Benjamin's  
"Moscow Diary", Modern Language Studies > Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn,  
1995), pp. 85-126.
*Walker, Clint B.: "Transformation Metaphors in the 'Soviet Moscow  
Text' of the 1920s and 1930s" Dissertation Abstracts International,  
Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, (67:6) 2006 Dec,  
2175-76. U of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006. DA3222955 . (2006)

All best,
Alexandra


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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk



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