On behalf of a friend in Moscow

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

Does anyone have any advice to give to my friend who has just sent me this:

> 'And I have been asked to deliver a very challenging course which could be called "History of Russian literature through British and American literary criticism".
> My idea is to split it up into two blocks (eighteen 90-minute lessons for the 19-th century, eighteen for the 20-th). I could take 5 - 6 most prominent Russian writers for each block. Then I would take some works on the authors and their legacy and prepare them for the classroom use. Preferrably the works should be written at different times. For example, 5 articles about Dostoevsky, one - written at the end of the 19-th cent., another - at the beginning of the 20-th, the third - after the Revolution, the fourth - in Khrushchev's times... Then the same with Tolstoy.
> Another problem  is to make the materials as useful as they can be - in terms of English learning. They should bring more than just bits of information on the subject declared. I will have to devise some tasks and follow-up activities.
> If You think anything of all this may work, I would ask You to think of any books or collected works that might help me. Perhaps there are some reliable text-books, monographs...


I shall begin, in a contrary way, by suggesting just one book with an entirely opposite focus: Maurice Friedberg,  "A Decade of Euphoria: Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia”, which was mentioned in the interesting obituary recently posted by Michael Finke.  Thank you, Michael, for doing this!

All the best,

Robert



Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD





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