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Ira Nadel. Love and Russian literature: From Benjamin to Woolf
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2025-5-190-195
Abstract
The new book by Ira Nadel was published in 2023 in Great Britain and the USA, becoming another evidence that interest in Russian cultural heritage and Russian-Western cultural ties is by no means fading. The book examines nine cases that reveal the phenomenon of ‘Russian love’ — either the love of a Western intellectual for a talented and mysterious Russian woman, which deeply influenced life and work of lovers, or love for Russian culture and language. The book by Ira Nadel is based on ego-documents, biography and source studies, and literary criticism, and is an informative and fascinating read for both a professional and a broad reading audience.
About the Author
O. Yu. Panova
A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga Y. Panova, Doctor of Philology
121069; 25A/14 Povarskaya St.; Moscow
References
1. Maugham, W. S. (2001). A Writer’s Notebook. London: Vintage Books.
2. Nadel, A. (2020). The Russian Woolf. Translated by T. Pirusskaya. In: O. Panova, V. Popova and V. Tolmachyov, eds., Literature and art. The twentieth century. Moscow: Litfakt, pp. 271-288. (In Russ.)
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Panova O.Yu. Ira Nadel. Love and Russian literature: From Benjamin to Woolf. Voprosy literatury. 2025;(5):190-195. https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2025-5-190-195
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