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Yuri Tynianov’s “Permanent Evolution. Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film,” Translated from Russian and Edited by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko
It is difficult to imagine a serious literary discussion among Slavists that would not eventually invoke the name of Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943). And yet, in notable contrast to his flashier Russian Formalist colleague Viktor Shklovsky, Tynianov’s writings have still been only spottily translated into English. Many of Tynianov’s ideas—especially but not only concerning parody, literary evolution, and the dynamism of center and periphery—have lost none of their currency today. The belated arrival of such a careful and well annotated translation is worth celebrating.
Writing Through Memory and Digging Through Secrets of the Past: Mykola Bazhan’s “Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul,” edited by Oksana Rosenblum, Lev Fridman, and Anzhelika Khyzhnia
The poems included in Quiet Spiders precede a tragedy in Ukrainian history, the Holodomor, or famine of 1932-1933, and the period known as the Executed Renaissance when a generation of Soviet writers and artists were wiped out by Stalin’s regime.