Izvestiya of Saratov University.
Philology. Journalism
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)

The Book Review

“A story of the extraordinary”

The review is dedicated to the book written by a Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Slavic literatures at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Slavic studies and Central European studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, a well-known science fiction scholar, and president of the Association of Science Fiction Researchers, E. N. Kovtun.

Multidimensional space of philology

The review is dedicated to the book by V. S. Krivonos, a well-known literary scholar, researcher of N. V. Gogol’s work and the Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of Samara State Social and Pedagogical University.

From the journal Vesy to the Russian “novel of catastrophes” of the late 20th century: A new book by A. I. Vanyukov

The review contains a general characterization of A. I. Vanyukov’s new book “The literary 20th century – 2: journals, books, genres”, its content, structure, logic of selecting the material for analysis, as well as the peculiarities of the author’s research style: a strong reliance on historical, literary and literary-critical material and context, attention to poetic detail, poetics of titles, numerical symbolism, composition of the work, active use of various biographical, literary-critical, epistolary sources.

“Authors are best known through their books...”

This review is dedicated to the book by a renowned literary critic, lecturer at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute, and editor of one of the best literary and artistic journals, S. I. Chuprinin. S. I. Chuprinin’s course of lectures for students at the Literary Institute is embedded in the context of the writer’s socio-literary activities, including his articles and books on the destiny of our literature.

Turkisms in the Russian language: The problem of assimilation and functioning in the concept of P. U. Bakirov

The review is devoted to the monograph by Professor P. U. Bakirov of Termez State University “Turkic names of persons in the Russian language”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the university where the author works. The researcher focuses on the problem of mastering linguistic borrowings and the specific features of their functioning in the recipient language. The object of study is the Turkic vocabulary, which has a long history of being assimilated by the Russian language.

Forgotten names

This article evaluates the book dedicated to the work of Nikolai Korolkov. The authors of the review point out the necessity to expand the database of the sources with the help of the Moscow archives, they also suggest that the references to many available sources could help create a more holistic impression of the personality of the writer. Thus, the review of the work The city of roofs, deposited in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, has not been mentioned. The same archive holds other documents relevant for this topic.

Museum metaphysics

This review deals with the book by S. V. Klimenko, a well-known philologist, a staff member of the N. G. Chernyshevskiy Estate Museum. It shows the academic character of the book under review. The book is timed according to the periods of the author’s creative life, but at the same time the identified periods appear to be crucial for the history of the museum as they were linked to anniversaries of N. G. Chernyshevskiy or memorable dates in the history of the museum itself.

Scientific legacy of Professor V. E. Goldin: About the book of the scientist’s selected works

The review is dedicated to the book of selected works by Professor V. E. Goldin, Linguistic Consciousness. Speech Communication (Saratov, Saratov State University Publ., 2020), prepared for publication by O. Kryuchkova and A. Sdobnova. The scientific interests of V. E. Goldin were extremely broad. The list of his scientific works includes studies on the Russian dialectology, problems of the general theory of language, speech communication, speech genres, the problems of psycholinguistics and applied linguistics.

“We are an association, we are a community, but we are not a school” – to the 100th anniversary of the “Serapion brothers” association

This article reviews the materials of a multi-author monograph dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the literary association “Serapion brothers”. This project has united researchers from Saratov, Moscow, St Petersburg, considered to be renowned experts in the history of Russian literature of the 1920–1930s. The research is based on the unique documents from the Serapion brothers’ legacy being introduced into the scientifi c circulation (K. Fedin, Vs. Ivanov, N. Tikhonov, V. Kaverin, I. Gruzdev).

“New drama”: Pro et contra

At the end of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st century there were serious changes in the poetics of drama, defi ning the strategy of artistic forms and features of artistic consciousness. This gives the right to single out the history of the “new drama” in a separate period of the literary and theatrical process. A new book by the Belarusian researcher S.Ya.

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