What the nightingale is silent about. Vinitsky I.Yu.

The book is based on a cycle of “detective” articles and notes about cult and undeservedly forgotten authors, heroes and texts of Russian literature from Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Osip Mandelstam, Daniil Harms and Veliomir Khlebnikov to the Estonian fantasher Ivan the People’s and Begless creator of the tragic Ukrainian folk song; from the disappointed officer of Pechorin, the nihilist Bazarov, the envious of Kavalerov, the dull office of the Epicodov and the unsuccessful ices of Panikovsky to a happy kitten named Pushkin, the playful mare of the commander of the Budyonny and collectivist chicken; From the "brothers Karamazov" to "girlish toy." Most of the “semi -mocking” and “semi -typical” short stories included in the book is united by the author’s natural desire to disperse at least in thoughts and imagination of the pure melancholy of our historical era.

Ilya Yuryevich Vinitsky - Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Slavic languages ​​and literature of Princeton University. Scientific interests -Russian literature of the 18th -xix centuries and the history of emotions. The author of the books “Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism” (2009), “Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia” (2015), “Consolete LII ”(1997),“ Interior House: Poetic Semantics and the historical imagination of Vasily Zhukovsky ”(2006),“ Count Sardinsky: Dmitry Khvostov and Russian Culture ”(2017) and“ Translated pictures. Literary translation as an interpretation and provocation ”(2022).