An Essay in Pushkins Resurrection in Andrei Bitovs An Assumption of Life. 1836
The article examines Andrei Bitovs book A Suggestion of Life. 1836 as a sample of a new form of publication which combines features of philosophical prose and those of literary analysis. Bitovs experiment is compared with other texts on the similar theme, i.e. Tolstoys Resurrection, Nabokovs The Gift, Karabchievskys Resurrection of Mayakovski and some others. The hermeneutical approach helps narrow the gap between the study and understanding of the Pushkinian text as a single whole.