In the most recent release of the Slavic Review, Chloё Kitzinger puts three new books about the Russian literary canon in conversation with one another – Rolf Hellebust’s How Russian Literature Became Great, Gary Saul Morson’s Wonder Confronts Certainty, and Angela Brintlinger’s Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature. Professor Kitzinger discusses the field’s stake in the concept of national ‘greatness,’ the potential pitfalls of seeing life through theory, the way aging influences reading, and much more.
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