Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves.
Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves.
Dovlatov in Leningrad -- Dovlatov in emigration -- The zone -- The compromise : journalism and fiction -- Dovlatov's sanctuary and Pushkin -- The suitcase and the fridge -- Ours -- Tales of emigre life -- Dovlatov's posthumous reputation.
"Retelling Dostoyevksy studies the Russian author through recreations of his novels by nine twentieth-century writers deeply influenced by him. It examines ten individual novels - two by Joseph Conrad, the others by Richard Wright, Leonid Leonov, Vladimir Nabokov, Bernard Malamu…
