The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature

Conversation recorded by I. Teneromo and first published in English in the New York Times, January 31, 1937, in Jay Leyda, KINO: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film [1960] (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), pp. 410–11, esp. 410.

“The Raid,” from Leo Tolstoy, The Raid and Other Stories, trans. Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 25.

This seminal reading is by Gary Saul Morson, “The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction” [1978], repr. in Tolstoy’s Short Fiction, ed. Michael R. Katz, Norton Critical Edition (New York: Norton, 1991), pp. 379–94.

Margo Rosen, “Natasha Rostova at Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable,” Tolstoy Studies Journal 17 (2005): 71–90.

Mikhail Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel,” in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, trans. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), pp. 286–88.

Nikolai Nekrasov, “O pogode” (1859), Part I, “Ulichnye vpechatleniia,” “Do sumerek,” 2, Sobranie sochinenii (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1971), vol. I, pp. 292–93. The poem “Yesterday . . .” is on p. 94.

Notes to pages 156–69 261

Chekhov to Aleksei Suvorin, March 27, 1894, in Anton Chekhov, A Life in Letters, p. 324.

For a discussion of early parodies, see Karl D. Kramer, “Literary Parodies,” ch. 2,

ˇ The Chameleon and the Dream: The Image of Reality in Cexov’s Stories (The Hague:

Mouton, 1970), especially pp. 31–33.

See the ruminations by Leonid Heifetz, “Notes from a Director: Uncle Vanya,” in The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov, ed. Vera Gottlieb and Paul Allain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 91–101, esp. 98. This Companion, edited by two drama professionals, is devoted entirely to the plays. My discussion of Chekhov in chapter 6 reverses that priority and attends almost exclusively to Chekhov as short-story writer.

Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Little Dog,” in About Love and Other Stories, trans. Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 173.

Anton Chekhov, “Enemies,” The Tales of Chekhov, vol. XI The Schoolmaster and Other Stories, trans. Constance Garnett (New York: Ecco Press, 1986), p. 32.

Chekhov, “About Love,” in About Love and Other Stories, p. 166.

Chekhov, “The Lady with the Little Dog,” p. 183.

7 Symbolist and Modernist world-building

Dmitri Merezhkovskii, “O prichinakh upadka, i o novykh techeniyakh sovremen-noi russkoi literatury” [1893], Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1913), vol. XV, p. 259.

Ilya Vinitsky, “Where Bobok Is Buried: The Theosophical Roots of Dosto-evskii’s ‘Fantastic Realism’,” Slavic Review 65.3 (Fall 2006): 523–43, especially 536–37.

For a survey of the institutions, philosophers, and literary critics who challenged positivism during these years, see Randall A. Poole, “Editor’s Introduction: Philosophy and Politics in the Russian Liberation Movement,” in Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy, trans. and ed. Randall A. Poole (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 1–83.

See Vladimir Solovyov, Lectures on Divine Humanity, trans. Peter Zouboff, rev. and ed. Boris Jakim (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1995).

See Edith W. Clowes, The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890–1914 (De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1988), esp. chs. 2 and 3 (on Nietzsche’s philosophy and its eccentric reception in Russia) and ch. 5 (on Russia’s “mystical symbolists”). Quoted phrases on p. 15.

Irina Paperno, “Nietzscheanism and the return of Pushkin in twentieth-century Russian culture (1899–1937),” in Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary, ed. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 211– 32, esp. 213.

262 Notes to pages 169–79

January 16,1900, in Tolstoy’s Diaries ed. and trans. R. F. Christian, vol. II: 1895-1910 (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1985), p. 475. See also the discussion of this letter and its context in Clowes, The Revolution of Moral Consciousness, pp. 67-70.