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Past Event

Text as a Philological Puzzle

February 6, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
America/New_York
International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219

Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Oleg Lekmanov. Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky.

During this lecture we will try to imagine ourselves as detectives: we will examine various artistic texts by Russian prose writers and poets as deductive puzzles which can be solved using various philological methods. Among the authors who will be discussed are the great Russian prose writer Leo Tolstoy, the avant-garde poet-futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, modern poet Timur Kibirov, and one of the best Russians poets of the 1920s-1950s, Boris Pasternak.

This lecture will be conducted in Russian.

Oleg Lekmanov (b. 1967) holds a PhD in philology, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. He was the Laureate of the White Book prize of Russian literature in 2019, and he is the author of over 700 published works.

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Eileen Huhn
(212) 854-6217