Abstract
"Is the division of art into men's and women's justified?" Liudmila Ulitskaia is asked in the interview which closes this volume. "Yes, yes, a hundred times yes," she replies. "Art is divided into men's and women's. … But at the same time, one should not forget that gender itself, for all its obvious duality, does not represent something absolute." In focusing on Russian women writers of this and the past century, this issue of Russian Studies in Literature is adopting a similar stance. As Ulitskaia argues, "A man's world and a woman's world are two different worlds. In some places, they intersect, but not fully." Thus the articles gathered here concentrate on the world of women's writing in Russia, treating as well where this world intersects in important ways with that of their male peers. At the center of our investigation are the works and personalities of the two greatest Russian women poets of the twentieth century—Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva—as well as two of the foremost contemporary Russian women prose writers, Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Liudmila Ulitskaia.
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