The Birth of the Body — Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Reader
Biographical note
Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, is Research Administrator at the Melikian Center, Arizona State University. He has published on US and Russian literature, including Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature (Brill, 2011).
Readership
All those interested in Russian culture of the first half of the 20th century and in representations of sexuality in literary texts, as well as all Slavists and literary scholars.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Translator and Editor’s Foreword
PART I EROTIC SILVER AGE
Vasilii Rozanov Selected Excerpts
Leonid Andreyev In the Fog
Aleksandr Kuprin Seasickness
Fyodor Sologub The Tsarina of Kisses
PART II INHERITING SILVER AGE IN ÉMIGRÉ WRITING
Vladislav Khodasevich On Pornography
Georgii Ivanov The Decay of the Atom
PART III EARLY SOVIET EROTIC FICTION
Panteleymon Romanov Without Bird Cherry
Vikentii Veresaev Isanka
Recommended Further Reading
Translator and Editor’s Foreword
PART I EROTIC SILVER AGE
Vasilii Rozanov Selected Excerpts
Leonid Andreyev In the Fog
Aleksandr Kuprin Seasickness
Fyodor Sologub The Tsarina of Kisses
PART II INHERITING SILVER AGE IN ÉMIGRÉ WRITING
Vladislav Khodasevich On Pornography
Georgii Ivanov The Decay of the Atom
PART III EARLY SOVIET EROTIC FICTION
Panteleymon Romanov Without Bird Cherry
Vikentii Veresaev Isanka
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