Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word

Notes on the Contributors

Notes on the Contributors Andrei Bitov (Moscow and Leningrad), one of the most important contemporary writers of Russian prose, received the Lenin prize in 1988. His collection of stories Life in Windy Weather (ed. Priscilla Meyer) and his novel Pushkin House have been published in the United States. Pushkin House received the prize for the best foreign novel in France in 1989. The collection The Teacher of Symmetry is being translated by Susan Brownsberger, and a book of literary essays , Life without Us (trans. Priscilla Meyer), is forthcoming. Sergei Bocharov (Gorkii Institute of World Literature, Moscow) is a scholar and critic whose interests range from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Mikhail Bakhtin. He is now working on an edition of the emigre poet Khodasevich and is assistant editor of the new Complete Works of Gogol, now being compiled at the Gorkii Institute. The Gogol conference at Wesleyan was the occasion of Bocharov's first visit to the United States. Susanne Fusso, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, has a book, Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy ofDisorder in Gogol, forthcoming from Stanford University Press. A chapter has appeared in the Slavic Review ("Dead Souls: Fragment, Parable, Promise"), and a Russian version of her paper in the present volume will appear in the Soviet publication Gogolevskii sbomik: Materialy i issledovaniia. She is the co-editor and translator, with Olga Peters Hasty, of America through Russian Eyes (Yale University Press, 1988). Frederick T Griffiths, Professor of Classics at Amherst College, is the author of Theocritus at Court (Leiden: Brill, 1979) and, with Stanley J. Rabinowitz, of Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narra240 Notes on the Contributors tive (Northwestern University Press, 1990). He has written on assorted topics in classical and comparative literature. Robert L. Jackson is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is a scholar of nineteenth-century Russian literature , especially of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov. His publications include Dostoevsky's Quest for Form (Yale University Press, 1965), The Art ofDostoevsky (Princeton University Press, 1981), and "Two Views of GogoI' and the Critical Synthesis: Belinskii, Rozanov and Dostoevsky: An Essay in Literary Historical Criticism" (Russian Literature, 1984). John Kopper is Assistant Professor of Russian at Dartmouth College. He is at work on a study of metaphor in Proust, Kafka, Belyi, and Gombrowicz. He has written on Nabokov, Belyi, Aleshkovsky, Pasternak , Kafka, and Shakespeare. Katherine Lahti is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, and Instructor of Russian at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). She is finishing a dissertation on classicism in the works of Vladimir Maiakovskii, and conducting research on theatrical movements of the early twentieth century. Iurii Mann (Gorkii Institute of World Literature, Moscow) has published extensively on Gogo!. His works include "Evoliutsiia gogolevskoi fantastiki" (The evolution of the fantastic in Gogo!) (1973), Poetika Gogolia (The poetics of Gogol) (Moscow, 1978; 2nd ed. 1988), and V poiskakh zhivoi dushi: "Mertvye dushi": Pisatel'-KritikaChitatel ' (In search of a living soul: Dead Souls: writer-critic-reader) (Moscow, 1984). He is chief editor of the new twenty-three-volume Complete Works of Gogol, now being compiled at the Gorkii Institute. Priscilla Meyer is Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. Her study of Nabokov's Pale Fire, Find What the Sailor Has Hidden, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1988. Her other publications include an edition and translation, with Stephen Rudy, Dostoevsky and Gogol: Texts and Criticism; an edition of the stories of Andrei Bitov, Life in Windy Weather (Ardis, 1986); and "Dostoevsky, 'Mr. Prokharchin,' and Naturalist Poetics" (Russian Literature, 1981). A Russian version of her paper in the present volume will appear in the Soviet publication Gogolevskii sbornik: Materialy i issledovaniia. Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. His publications include The 241 Notes on the Contributors Boundaries ofGenre: Dostoevsky's "Diary ofa Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), "The Heresiarch of Meta" (on Bakhtin; PTL, 1979), Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in "War and Peace" (Stanford University Press, 1987), and, with Caryl Emerson, Bakhtin: The Creation ofa Prosaics (Stanford University Press, 1990). Cathy Popkin is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. Her book, The Pragmatics ofInsignificance : Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. Stanley J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Russian at Amherst College, has just completed, with Frederick...