About Russian literature. From Alexander Pushkin to Yuza Aleshkovsky. Sedakova O.A.

The book of Olga Sedakova “On Russian Literature” first collects together her works dedicated to Russian literature of the XIX-XX centuries, written in different genres in different years. This side of the work of Olga Sedakova, poet, translator, philologist, cultural researcher, is less known to the reader. The authors in question are seen and read in an unexpected turn.

The book opens up by the Pushkin section: Pushkin (poet, prose writer, playwright, critic) is a constant and central subject of research and creative thoughts of Olga Sedakova. The second section contains articles about prose, from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Venedikt Erofeev and Yuza Aleshkovsky. The third section consists of experiments on Russian poetry from Nekrasov to Arseny of Tarkovsky. The final fourth section is dedicated to modern poets, from Joseph Brodsky to Elena Schwartz.

In general, this big volume-over fifty articles, lectures and essays-gives the reader a unique opportunity to see the Russian literature of two centuries in a new way-and ask her his questions. For Olga Sedakova, this is primarily a question about “poetic” in the broad sense of the word.