Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Friends & Enemies of the Word xi
5. Conversation about Dante 1
6. About Poetry
7. FROM THE AUTHOR 47
8. The Word & Culture 49
9. Attack 54
10. About an Interlocutor 58
11. About the Nature of the Word 65
12. Notes about Poetry 80
13. The End of the Novel 85
14. Badger's Burrow 89
15. The Nineteenth Century 94
16. Peter Chaadaev 101
17. Notes about Chenier 108
18. Francois Villon 114
19. Uncollected Essays and Fragments
20. Pushkin & Scriabin (Fragments) 123
21. The Morning of Acmeism 128
22. Literary Moscow 133
23. Literary Moscow: Birth of the Fabula 138
24. Storm & Stress 144
25. Humanism & Modern Life 154
26. Fourth Prose 157
27. Journey to Armenia
28. SEVAN 173
29. ASHOT OVANESIAN 179
30. ZAMOSKVORECH'E 181
31. SUKHUM 190
32. THE FRENCH 193
33. AROUND THE NATURALISTS 196
34. ASHTARAK 201
35. ALAGEZ 204
36. Notes 209
37. Index of Names 241