Lydia Ginzburg’s Alternative Literary Identities

Emily Van Buskirk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. She works on twentieth-century Russian and Czech literature and culture.
Andrei Zorin is the Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He previously taught at the Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow), and has been on the faculty of Harvard, Stanford and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works on the history of Russian literature and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as contemporary literature and culture.

Contents: Sergei Kozlov: Lydia Ginzburg's Victory and Defeat - Alexander Zholkovsky: The Red and the Gray (Appendix: «Between Genres») - Caryl Emerson: Lydia Ginzburg on Tolstoy and Lermontov (with Dostoevsky as the Distant Ground) - Andrei Zorin: Ginzburg as Psychologist - Emily Van Buskirk: Varieties of Failure: Lydia Ginzburg's Character Analyses from the 1930s and 1940s - Andrew Kahn: Lydia Ginzburg's «Lives of the Poets»: Mandelstam in Profile - Irina Sandomirskaia: The Leviathan, or Language in Besiegement: Lydia Ginzburg's Prolegomena to Critical Discourse Analysis - Kirill Kobrin: To Create a Circle and to Break It («Blockade Person's» World of Rituals) - Stanislav Savitsky: Reflection as an Ethical Value (Lydia Ginzburg's «The Thought that Drew a Circle») - Laurent Thévenot: At Home and in a Common World, in a Literary and Scientific Prose: Ginzburg's Notes of a Blockade Person - Alyson Tapp/Emily Van Buskirk: Narratives and Essays by Lydia Ginzburg - Alyson Tapp: Ginzburg's «Rational Impressionism»: A Translator's Note on «The Return Home».

«This book, with superb essays about various aspects of [Lidiya Ginzburg] by Sergei Kozlov, Alexander Zholkovsky, Caryl Emerson, Andrei Zorin, Emily Van Buskirk, Andrew Kahn, Irina Sandomirskaia, Kirill Kobrin, Stanislav Savitsky, Laurent Thevonot and Alyson Tapp plus translations of some of her important prose pieces is a wonderful testament to an essential writer.» (Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine January 2013)

«This book, with superb essays about various aspects of [Lidiya Ginzburg] by Sergei Kozlov, Alexander Zholkovsky, Caryl Emerson, Andrei Zorin, Emily Van Buskirk, Andrew Kahn, Irina Sandomirskaia, Kirill Kobrin, Stanislav Savitsky, Laurent Thevonot and Alyson Tapp plus translations of some of her important prose pieces is a wonderful testament to an essential writer.» (Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine January 2013)