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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
THE LANGUAGE OF WITNESS, THE LANGUAGE OF CATASTROPHES
- Nikita Bystrov. Dan Pagis’ Poem “Written with a Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car”: A Review of Interpretations
- Oxana Koval, Ekaterina Kriukova. “The Pitiful Star of Hope”: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Artistic Universe in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s Socio-Political Reflections
- Handan Demir. Psyche, Archive, Art: On the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann (transl. from English by Aleksandr Skidan)
SOVIET PHILOSOPHY: CONTEXTS AND INFLUENCES
- Michail Maiatsky. Education Through Philosophy, Education to Philosophy (On Some Late Soviet Pedagogico-Philosophical Initiatives)
- Maja Soboleva. Marxism in Valentin Voloshinov’s “Marxism and the Philosophy of Language”
- Alyssa DeBlasio. Alexander Piatigorsky and Buddhism as Object and Approach (transl. from English by Ksenia Gusarova)
MEDIA SPACES OF THE HISTORICAL AVANT GARDE
- Sven Spieker. From the Compiler
- Sven Spieker. Some Additions to Malevich’s Texts about Cinema
- Jurij Murašov. Economy, Language, and Writing in Russian Avant-Gard: Shklovsky, Lenin, Malevich
- Boris Groys. Surface and Support: Two Notions of the Medium (transl. from English by Andrey Fomenko)
- Margarete Vöhringer. Socialism Spun Around: Vertov’s Cinema in the Context of Scientific Management (transl. from English by Nina Stavrogina)
- Andrey Fomenko. The Canvas and Everything Else
FROM UNDERGROUND TO ACTIONISM
- Ilja Kukuj. Avant-garde in the Postmodern Era: The Case of Vladimir Erl’
- Addendum. <Andrei Gaivoronsky, Vladimir Erl’.> Poetic Expositions of Ego-Impressionist Lyricists
- Petr Kazarnovskii. “Vibration of words”: Understanding the Creative Marginality of A. Nick
- Vladimir Feshchenko. Grapholalia in Poetic Writing. Avant-garde — Underground — Undernet
- Mikhail Pavlovets. “Poetry Is Me”: Performances of Bonifacius / German Lukomnikov
IN MEMORIAM LEV RUBINSTEIN (19.02.1947—14.01.2024)
- Olga Sedakova. The Practice of Penmanship
- Hélène Henry-Safier. “An Author Among Us” (in Memory of Lev Rubinstein) (transl. from French by Irina Vasyuchenko and Georgy Zinger)
- Mikhail Iampolski. The Poetics of a Closed Society (on Lev Rubinstein’s Work)
- Maxim Dryomov. Tables, Orthography, and Settings of Lev Rubinstein
- Aleksandr Skidan. An Homage to Lev Rubinstein (Readymade)
FROM THE LEGACY OF MARIETTA CHUDAKOVA
- Catherine Depretto. In memoriam. Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (2 January 1937 — 21 November 2021)
- (contributed by Maria Chudakova). Selected Pages from the Diary of Marietta Chudakova (2 January 1981 — 2 January 1983)
- Maria V. Mishurovskaya. Letters from Yuri Lotman, Zara Mints and Boris Egorov to Marietta Chudakova, Alexander Chudakov and Evgeniy Toddes (Based on Materials from the Personal Archive of M.O. Chudakova)
- Pavel Glushakov. Classics and Contemporaries of Marietta Chudakova: Selected Inscriptions from the Library of Marietta and Alexander Chudakov
- Pavel Glushakov. Marietta Omarovna Chudakova’s Marginalia
ALEXANDER CHUDAKOV AS A SCHOLAR AND NOVELIST
“NATIVE” LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE WRITER
- Maria Baskina. Poetic Self-Translation, or a Repudiation of Herder (Review of Adrian Wanner’s book Dvuyazykaya muza: avtorskiy perevod v russkoy poezii, Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika, 2023)
- Valery Dymshits. The Station is Shaking from Aonid’s Singing (Review of Harriet Murav’s book Muzyka iz ukhodyashchego poyezda: yevreyskaya literatura v poslerevolyutsionnoy Rossii, Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika, 2023)
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. The Historical and Aesthetic Politics of Literary Anthologies in the Art Nouveau Era (Review of Fabian Saner’s book Anthologisches Schreiben: Eine ästhetisch-politische Konstellation bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt, Brill Fink, 2022)
- Natalia Polosina. Timeless, Untimely, Timely: Victorian Poetry and the Problem of Time (Review of Irmtraud Huber’s book Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
- Aida Razumovskaya. The “Never-Fading Gardens” of the Era of Russian Art Nouveau (Review of the book Sady Serebryanogo veka. Literatura. Zhivopis’. Arkhitektura, BuksMArt, 2022)
- Li Qin. Russian Classics: The View from China (Review of the Chen Zhengmin’s book A New View on Russian Literature, The Commercial Press, 2022)
- Mikhail Sergeev. Conrad Gessner in the World of Books: Towards a Release of a New Biography of the Zurich Polymath (Review of Urs B. Leu’s book Conrad Gessner (1516—1565): Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance, Brill, 2023)
- New Books
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Svetlana Salnikova. Fashion Cultures, Identities and Crisis: Making, Wearing, Caring (Yerevan State University International Conference, Yerevan, Armenia, 1—2 June 2023)
- Nikolai Nakhshunov. The Struggle for Attention in the Public Sphere: A Perspective of Critical Phenomenology, International Summer School (Department of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, Institute of Slavic Studies, Dresden University, 23—29 July 2023)