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The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.
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- A new voice on the Slavic Literature Pod · 34 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron is joined by Una Vulevic: a PhD student, Anna Karenina enthusiast and...a new co-host on the show. They'll talk a little bit about her background…
- No One Talks About the War (with author Nina Kossman) · 48 minShow Notes: This week, Nina Kossman joins the podcast to talk about her upcoming book, No One Talks About the War: Travels in Ukraine During the War. A collection of short…
- Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk) · 1 h 47 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron dives into the various forces in Ukrainian literature, theory, and criticism shortly after the turn of the 20th century. To help him wrap his head…
- Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki) · 50 minShow Notes: This week, Jake Zawlacki joins Cameron to talk about his translation of Akhmet Baitursynov's Mosquito. Although it's appearing in English now for the first time, the…
- Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya · 1 h 33 minThis week, Cameron (finally) dives into Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna. A novel about the Great Terror written during the Great Terror, Chukovskaya's eponymous character…
- For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian) · 1 h 23 minShow Notes: This week, on For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing, a cautionary tale about how reading Ralph Waldo Emerson can…
- The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today · 1 h 36 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatization of one chapter of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate: the final letter…
- PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman · 51 minShow Notes: This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dramatizes a chapter of…
- A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara) · 1 h 5 minShow Notes: This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools. The novel, first published in English in 1977, follows student…
- Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43 · 1 h 45 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur, covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally arrive in the town of Chevengur, we go…
- Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko · 1 h 52 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with “Zvenihora.” The film, released in 1928, explores a thousand years of…
- Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska) · 1 h 9 minShow Notes: This week, we see that every author starts somewhere in Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882. To talk about Chekhov’s earliest…
- My five favorite films of the year + Sayat Nova, dir. by Sergei Parajanov · 42 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron talks a little bit about director Sergei Parajanov’s “Sayat Nova” (also known as The Color of Pomegranates), and five other films he really liked…
- Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko · 1 h 13 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron dives into the final entry into Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Silent Trilogy, “Earth” (1930). The film’s deceptively simple plot—of a…
- Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast) · 1 h 53 minShow Notes: This week, Ally Pitts — host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast — joins Cameron to talk about the book Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev. The book follows veteran…
- Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov · 1 h 11 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron dives into Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur, covering chapters 1 through 25. Through the late Russian Empire into the early Soviet Union, Sasha Dvanov…
- The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman · 1 h 17 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron returns to Vasily Grossman, covering his first novel of World War II, The People Immortal. The novel follows the Red Army through the early days of…
- Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan · 1 h 19 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger, trying to probe the question plaguing recent episodes: “What is the value…
- An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October · 12 minWe were supposed to talk about Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic and Fan Hai's Delicious Hunger today, but the episode's audio is trapped on a dead computer. You can look forward to…
- For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda · 1 h 10 minShow Notes: This week, Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women living through war in Merce Rodoreda’s…
