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Index
COVER
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
TABLE OF TRANSLITERATION
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS
WORLDS OF RUSSIAN FANTASY
PART I RUSSIAN EARLY-MODERN FANTASY AND UTOPIAN THOUGHT
SECTION A. From Folk Myth to the Fantastic in Early Modern Russian Literature
A1. Foregrounding Travel in Space: Fantastic and Utopian Scapes of Bygone Years
A2. The Fantastic in Early-Modern Russian Poetry and Prose
Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich (1743-1816)
From the ode God
The Magic Lantern
Zlogor
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837)
Autumn
The Bronze Horseman
The Queen of Spades. (Transl. by Gillon R. Aitken)
Lermontov, Mikhail Iurievich (1814-1841)
Demon [A proem]
The Dream
<Shtoss > (Transl. by David Lowe)
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883)
The Phantoms [abridged]
Two Poems in Prose from Senilia
A3. Arabesque and Bizzare Universes of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [-Yanovsky] (1809-1852)
Vyi [abridged] (Transl. by Carl Proffer)
Nevsky Prospekt (Transl. by Alexander Tulloch)
The Diary of a Madman (Transl. by Alexander Tulloch)
The Nose
SECTION B. Early-modern Utopias and Dostoevsky’s responses to Utopian thought
B1. Three Early-Modern Russian Utopias
Bulgarin, Faddei Venediktovich (1789-1859)
From The Plausible Fantasies. (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Odoevsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1803-1869)
From The Year 4338. Letters from St. Petersburg. (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gavrilovich (1828-1889)
From What is to be Done: “Vera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream.” (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
B2. Three Responses to Utopian Thought by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Bobok
The Little Boy at the Savior’s Christmas Tree
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
PART II MODERN RUSSIAN FANTASY, UTOPIA AND SCIENCE FICTION
SECTION C. Russia’s Silver Age and the Fantastic of the Twenties and Thirties
C1. Sampling Russian Symbolist Enigmas
Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich (1880-1921)
The Stranger
From The Twelve
Briusov, Valery Iakovlevich (1873-1924)
Dust Demons
The Republic of the Southern Cross (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Sologub [Teternikov], Fyodor Kuzmich (1863-1927)
The Asteroid
A Little Man (Transl. by Maurice Friedberg)
Bely, Andrei [Bugaev, Boris Nicholaievich] (1880-1934)
Demon
From St. Petersburg (Transl. by Robert A. Maguire and John E. Malmstad)
C2. Russia’s Modernist and Post-Symbolist Prose.
Kuprin, Alexander Ivanovich (1870-1938)
A Toast (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Liquid Sunshine (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Remizov, Alexei Mikhailovich (1877-1957)
The Bear Cub
The Blaze
From the novels Russia in a Whirlwind and In a Rosy Light
Zamiatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937)
The Dragon
The Cave (Transl. by Gleb Struve)
From We [Records 1-4] (Transl. by Samuel Cioran)
Pilniak, Boris Andreevich (1894-1937)
A Year in Their Life
From The Naked Year [Chapter VII and The Last Triptych]
C3. The Waning of Modernism in Post-revolutionary Years.
Zabolotsky, Nikolai Alekseevich (1903-1958)
Signs of Zodiac
Human of the Snows
Kharms, Daniel [Yuvachev] (1905-1942)
The Young Man who Surprized the Watchman.
The Dream
Yuri Olesha, Yuri Karlovich (1899-1960)
Love
On the Fantasy of H. G. Wells
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich (1891-1940)
The Fatal Eggs. (Translated by Carl Proffer)
From Master and Margarita [Chapters 20 and 21]
SECTION D: Pre-Soviet & Soviet Visions of Outer Space
Bogdanov [Malinovsky], Alexander Alexandrovich (1873-1928)
From The Red Star. (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Tolstoy, Alexei Nikolaevich (1883-1945)
From Aelita. (Transl. by Leland Fetzer)
Platonov [Klimentov], Andrei Platonovich (1899-1951)
From The Sun, the Moon, and the Ether Channel Transl. by Elliott Urday and A. L.)
Efremov, Ivan Antonovich (1907-1972)
From The Andromeda Nebula
SECTION E: On Contemporary Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction. A Postcript by Sofya Khagi
Bibliography and Suggested Readings
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