In his novel Podvig (Glory, 1932) Nabokov follows Martyn Edel’vejs’s journeys through Europe, as a young Russian emigrate, and the gradual development of his obsession with accomplishing a heroic deed. While exploring the symbolic value of such recurring images as fores...

Editorial note.

Judging by the diaries, letters, reports and other material associated with the theme of travel, Tuscany is one of the favorite subjects in Serbian Hodoeporics of the XIX and XX century. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the image of Tuscany in some of thes...

Italian translation of an excerpt of the novel "Probudím se na Šibuji" by Anna Cima.

In this paper we aim to analyse those elements, which can formally ascribed to Math, in the essay "Vremja – mera mira", written by Velimir Khlebnikov between 1915-1916. This text has been largely neglected to date, most likely due to the complex mathematical language em...

The essay deals with the literature production of three great Russian writers who travelled in the Caucasus, namely Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41), Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) and Vasily Grossman (1905-64). In particular, I will consider Lermontov’s poems set in the Caucas...

Italian translation of the essay: S. Boym, Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky, "Poetics Today", 1996 (XVII), 4, p. 511-522.

Italian translation of the essay: Fredric Jameson, The Prison-house of Language: a Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism, Princeton 1974, p. 50-54; 59.

Through the books of Vasily Aksyonov (1932-2009) the representation of the journey to America and the gradual transformation of the idea of America in Russian literature in 1970-1980 will be explored. The perception of America in the Russian imagination has always been ...

Editorial note.