Bücher der Reihe Companions to Russian Literature

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece The Nose. The book focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, and presents an overview of major critical approaches to the story in Gogol scholarship.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece The Nose. The book focuses on numerous instances of the writer's wordplay, and presents an overview of major critical approaches to the story in Gogol scholarship.

Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin¿s oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium.