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.

M. M. ZOSHCHENKO (1895-1958)

READINGS FOR THE COURSE

"The Lady Aristocrat"

"The Bathhouse"

"An Incident on the Volga"

"Dog Scent"

"Poverty"

"The Adventures of an Ape"

Vozvrshchennaja molodost' and "Rasskazy". Prose and stories. Moshkov's site.

ON ZOSHCHENKO AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION

Mikhail M. Zoshchenko. Brief biographical note by Clarence Brown.

Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks. A little bit about the suppressive atmostphere after WWII in which Zoshchenko wrote. From the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress.

Mikhail Zoshchenko. From Spartacus Educational.

LECTURES, ARTICLES AND STUDY NOTES ON ZOSHCHENKO

Minor Character as Narrative Strategy: the case of Zoshchenko's "Strashnaja noch'". By James Driscoll, Harvard University.

Abstract: From Laughter to a Critique of Culture: Mixail Zoshchenko's Sky Blue Book. By Elizabeth A. Papazian, Vassar College.

Confessions of a Humorist: Laughter and Suffering in Zoshchenko's Pered vosxodom solnca (Before Sunrise). By Mirande Bissell, Princeton University.

PICTURES OF ZOSHCHENKO / TOURS OF ZOSHCHENKO PLACES

Mikhail Zopshchenko[sic]. Photo from Gregory Freidin's site.

Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhahlovich. Photo from Schrifsteller.

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