AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.

F. A. ISKANDER (1929- )

READINGS FOR THE COURSE

"Belshazzar's Feast" (from Sandro from Chegem)

Forbidden Fruit. Translated from Russian by Sonia Melnikova. Published by TWO LINES, San Francisco, 2000

Fazil' Iskander. Stories. From Maksim Moshkow's site.

ON ISKANDER AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION

The Black Sea. By Neal Ascherson. Contains a few notes on Iskander. General information on I's home, Abkhazia.

"Man and His Environs" (Marking the 70th birthday of Fazil Iskander) . On the Russian Culture Navigator page.

LECTURES, ARTICLES AND STUDY NOTES ON ISKANDER

PICTURES OF ISKANDER / TOURS OF ISKANDER PLACES

Fasil Iskander. One of the winners of the Russian prize for the encouragement of the achievements in art and literature. Photograph.

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