Selected Essays

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Friends and Enemies of the Word

Conversation about Dante

Translated by Clarence Brown and Robert Hughes

About Poetry

From the Author

The Word and Culture

Attack

About an Interlocutor

About the Nature of the Word

Notes about Poetry

The End of the Novel

Badger’s Burrow

The Nineteenth Century

Peter Chaadaev

Notes about Chénier

François Villon

Uncollected Essays and Fragments

Pushkin and Scriabin (Fragments)

The Morning of Acmeism

Literary Moscow

Literary Moscow: Birth of the Fabula

Storm and Stress

Humanism and Modern Life

Fourth Prose

Journey to Armenia

Sevan

Ashot Ovanesian

Zamoskvorech’e

Sukhum

The French

Around the Naturalists

Ashtarak

Alagez

Notes

Index of Names