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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy
Wiley 2011; US$ 18.95The essential companion to Stieg Larsson's bestselling trilogy and director David Fincher's 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy— The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest —is an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson's lifelong... more...
Alphabet of Masks
Enigma Books 2011; US$ 19.00A new poet from Russia describes life that will surprise and enchant. A new voice from the long Soviet silence. more...
The Secret Life of Wallander
John Blake 2011; US$ 15.99As Nordic Noir takes off, there is one standout character who has been fascinating critics and readers alike for almost 20 years?this book traces the evolution of Kurt Wallander and the enormous impact he has had In the two decades since he first appeared in Henning Mankel's novel Faceless Killers, the sad Swedish detective Kurt Wallander... more...
Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 44.99Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is... more...
Graf Leo Tolstoi
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 11.00Hauptbeschreibung Aus dieser noch zu Lebzeiten Tolstois entstandenen Biographie gehen unverkennbar der hohe Status und die große Reputation hervor, die einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller aller Zeiten schon früh genoss. Stets aus der Sicht des Literaturliebhabers und trotzdem mit der nötigen kritischen Distanz beschreibt Erich Berneker einerseits... more...
Project for Theatre
Continuum International Publishing 1987; US$ 110.00Presents Bergman's creative adaptations of three stage works - Nora, Julie and Scenes From a Marriage - in which women come to grips with the possibilities of sexual and social emancipation. The book allows Bergman devotees to compare the director's cinematic and theatrical techniques. more...
Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature
BRILL 2011; US$ 159.00The monograph explores traditions of expressing the body and sexuality (designated as "silence" and "burlesque") throughout Russia's literary history, with a particular focus on how these traditions affect the literary modernization during the Silver Age (1890-1921) and subsequent émigré writing. more...
Slavic Gender Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 165.00This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented area of contemporary Slavic linguistics. For those working... more...









