RUST 105 PO - Russian Literature 1861-1917

CrsNo RUST105 PO


When Offered: Spring 2012, alternate years.

Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine

Crime, Passion, Politics: Russian Literature, 1861-1917. The course explores canonical literary representations of the human condition in the modern age. The focus is on the logic of everyday experience of people much like ourselves who maintain passionate commitments while living in the ambivalent present and facing uncertain future, in an era marked by terrorism, political upheaval, and economic change. Texts include Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, Chekhov’s Lady with Lapdog and The Story of an Unknown Man and Bely’s Petersburg.

(Russian in Translation)