Russian Writers on Russian Writers

The contributors -- eminent scholars of Russian literature and culture -- consider a range of critical responses by renowned Russian poets and prose writers of the 18th to 20th centuries. In Russia, where literature has so often assumed an important role in society, literary polemic and comment by one writer upon another, is of greater significance than in Western Europe. Russian Writers on Russian Writers casts light upon this relatively neglected phenomenon by placing a wide range of individual studies within a critical, historical and theoretical framework.