Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature

Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, teaches Russian literature at UT-Austin. He has published extensively on North American and Russian literature and culture, including a book on Thomas Pynchon (Minsk, 2001).

All those interested in Russian intellectual and literary history and in literary representations of human sexualities, as well as comparatists using interdisciplinary approaches to world literature.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques
1. Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Dis-course of Silence
2. Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov
3. Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age
4. Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing
5. Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel
6. Joseph Brodsky’s Libertinage: Sexual and Erotic Themes in his Poetry
Conclusion: Russia’s “Threshold of Modernity” and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Bio-power
Bibliography
Index