Russian literature

Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture.

How and when did a Russian national literature come into being?

What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language?

The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare', as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets ornovelists.