Crimean travelogue and failed initiation: two stories by Mikhail Elizarov
15 September 2023
Time: 6pm
47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, St Petersburg
Lecture ‘Crimean travelogue and failed initiation: two stories by Mikhail Elizarov’ by Andrei Astvatsaturov.
The lecture discusses two key stories ‘Heat’ and ‘We went out to smoke for 17 years’ by Mikhail Elizarov. These stories are masterpieces of modern Russian short stories. These stories take a special place in the writer’s works and are united by a ritual-mythological structure that determines their storylines, character structure, and system of images.
The lecture also presents a detailed analysis of these texts and makes an attempt to show the hidden mechanisms that the writer uses as the basis of the plots.