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An Aesthetic Utopia: 100 Lectures on Russian Literature
Enter the minds of twenty classic writers and understand Russia through their work
Completed · 111 episodes
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Liu Wenfei: Russian Literature, an Aesthetic Utopia Special: Russian Literature in China 1. A Genuine Cult of Pushkin 2. Why Do Russians Revere Him? 3. ‘My Secret Verses Will Sadden No One’ 4. The Captain's Daughter: Russia's Own Historical Novel 5. Onegin's Superfluous Life | Eugene Onegin 6. The Death of a Poet and the ‘Life’ of a Poet 7. Lermontov's Flowers of Evil 8. Life Is a Masquerade, and We Are Puppets | The Demon and Masquerade 9. The True Russian Novel Begins with A Hero of Our Time 10. A Monument ‘High-Jump Contest’ 11. ‘What Are You Laughing At? You Are Laughing at Yourselves!’ | The Government Inspector 12. Rus, Where Are You Racing? | Dead Souls 13. How Absurd Can the World Be? | The Nose and The Overcoat 14. Was Gogol a Progressive Fighter or an Advocate of the Whip? | Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends 15. Russia, a Vast Cultural Pendulum 16. From Poor Folk to the ‘Whole Human’: A Cruel Genius 17. The ‘House of the Dead’ and the ‘Underground’ | Notes from a Dead House and Notes from Underground 18. After Killing a ‘Louse’ | Crime and Punishment 19. A Book of Prophecy: Demons 20. Does God Exist? Is the Soul Immortal? | The Brothers Karamazov 21. ‘Reading Dostoevsky Is the Work of a Lifetime’ The Young Women in Turgenev 22. Tolstoy's Estate: A Bright Clearing in the Forest 23. War and Peace: A Heroic Pastoral of the Russian Nation I 24. War and Peace: A Heroic Pastoral of the Russian Nation II 25. Anna Karenina: A Milestone in the Rise of Russian Literature 26. A Murder and a Trial | Resurrection 27. Nabokov: Tolstoy, the Sun of Russian Literature Why Is Russian Literature So Deeply Religious? Liu Wenfei × sy: Is It All Right to Be an Ordinary Person? 28. Chekhov: Squeezing the Slave out of Himself Drop by Drop 29. ‘To Whom Shall I Tell My Sorrow?’ | Chekhov's Fiction 30. What Do We Live and Suffer For? | Chekhov's Drama 31. A Pilgrimage to Suffering: Chekhov on Sakhalin 32. Chekhov beyond His Age 33. Russian Literature's Second Glory 34. ‘Eternal War! We Know Peace Only in Dreams’ | Symbolist Poetry 35. ‘I Was Then with My People’ | Acmeist Poetry 36. A Slap in the Face of Public Taste | Futurist Poetry 37. The Silver Age: Russia's Renaissance 38. Gorky: At the Bottom, among the People 39. Heroes and Tramps | Gorky's Early Work 40. ‘This Is My Faith, This My Confession!’ | Early Twentieth-Century Work 41. The Literary Myth of an Age | Gorky and Soviet Literature 42. Gorky ‘Out of Time’ Russian Censorship and ‘Aesopian Language’ 43. ‘Life Tells an Incomparable Lie’ | Tsvetaeva's Life and Fate 44. Tsvetaeva's Defiant Character and ‘Poetics of the Threshold’ 45. ‘God, Forgive Me for This Happiness!’ | Love in Prague 46. Intertwined Flames: Letters among Three Poets 47. The Twentieth Century's Foremost Poet 48. Prishvin, the Unorthodox Player 49. Beyond Stone Walls, Discovering Nature's Secret Life 50. Where Does ‘The Attention of Kin’ Come From? 51. A Quixotic Journey | Prishvin as Pioneer of Ecological Literature 52. Literature Should Be Neutral, like Nature 53. Beginning with the Nobel Prize Controversy 54. ‘Life Is My Sister, Now in Flood’ | Poetry 55. What Are Culture and Art? | Safe Conduct and People and Propositions 56. Doctor Zhivago: The Book of the Russian Intellectual's Twentieth-Century Fate 57. Autumn in Peredelkino Quiet Don, Why Do Your Waters Run So Turbid? 58. The Enigmatic Babel 59. This Is Robbery, a Disaster for the Russian Land | Odessa Stories and Petersburg Diary 60. Red Cavalry: Lyricism of Violence, Sex, and Romance 61. Babel: Write the Most Interesting Five Minutes 62. A Carnivalesque Literary Record of an Age 63. Abnormal Normality: Paustovsky's Life and Work 64. Precious Dust and Immortal Roses | The Golden Rose and More 65. Story of a Life: Paustovsky through Storm and Stress 66. What Literary Position Should a Writer Hold? | Assessing Paustovsky Native versus Émigré Literature: Opposition or Interdependence? 67. Nabokov's ‘Happiest Childhood Imaginable’ 68. A New Star of Russian Émigré Literature: From Mary to The Gift 69. Nabokov Gradually ‘Westernized’ | Bend Sinister, Pnin, and More 70. It Was Not Her I Possessed Madly, but My Own Creation | Lolita 71. What Is Nabokovian Writing? | Pale Fire and Ada 72. Nabokov: I Have a Home; My Home Is in Petersburg 73. Solzhenitsyn: Suffering Prophet and Eternal Dissident 74. A Day in the Camp: Survival as Protest | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 75. The Russian Intellectual's Soul in an Exceptional Age | The First Circle and Cancer Ward 76. The Gulag Archipelago: A Shocking Metaphor 77. The Red Wheel: Revolution as the Great Red Wheel of History 78. Solzhenitsyn's Final Lecture: Freedom Is Air 79. Vampilov: The Russian Theater Star Who Died Too Young 80. The World Becomes What You Believe | The Elder Son and Provincial Anecdotes 81. However Things Turn Out, the Garden Must Be Tended | Duck Hunting and Last Summer in Chulimsk 82. No Positive Heroes, Only Complex Humanity | Vampilov's Drama 83. Astafyev: A Representative Voice of Siberian Literature 84. The Ode to a Tree: I Pity Myself—and Somehow the Earth Too 85. The Tsar Fish: No Ecological Theme, Only Human Loneliness 86. Why Does Russian Literature Love Nature So Deeply? Life and Fate: How Can One Preserve a Human Life under Extreme Conditions? 87. Who Made You Write Poetry? Perhaps God | Brodsky's Life 88. ‘Ruins Are a Festival of Time’ | Brodsky's Poetry 89. A Person May Never Fully Reveal the Self | Brodsky's Essays and Less Than One 90. On Grief and Reason: Prose like Poetry 91. Is Poetry the Only Moral Insurance? | Brodsky's Aesthetics 92. Brodsky Receives the Message in Russian Poetry's Drifting Bottle 93. Yevtushenko: A Poet as Carefree as a Child 94. ‘Loud’ Poetry Steps Out of the Refuge of Lyric Verse 95. Yevtushenko's Tenderness: I Love You More than Nature 96. Why Is a Poet More than a Poet in Russia? Special | Russian Literature in the Twenty-First Century: What Has Unprecedented Creative Freedom Brought? 97. Rising Star Guzel Yakhina | Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes 98. Looking Back at History between Fact and Fiction | Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes II 99. My Children: The History and Reality of Russia's Germans 100. Russian Literature as Another ‘Motherland’ Conclusion: May You Be Happy Listening and Joyful Reading!