Postgraduate reading group 2019-2020: Russian Literature From the Margins
This reading group addressed the concept of ‘margins’ both physically and metaphorically by examining texts on the fringes of canonicity. Potential topics include texts written by non-Russian authors, war memoirs from the GDR and the works of neglected female writers. The titles included Julia Voznesenskaya’s collection of short stories The Women’s Decameron and Nadezhda Mandelstam’s Hope Against Hope.