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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Theoretical Common Places -- 1. Mythologies of Everyday Life -- 2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment -- 3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania -- 4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism -- Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Freedom as Cocreation -- Adventure and the Borders of Freedom -- Eccentric Modernities and Third-Way Thinking -- The Public World and the Architecture of Freedom -- Agnostic Space: Freedom versus Liberation -- Scenography of Freedom: Political Optics and Phantasmagoria -- Passionate Thinking, Judging, and Imagination -- Shape of the Book -- 1. Freedom versus Liberation: Corrupted Sacrifice from Tragedy to Modernity -- Hope or Fate? -- Technê: Plotting Freedom -- Mania: Plotting Liberation and Tyranny -- Catharsis: Freedom or Liberation? -- Warburg or the Architecture of Deliverance -- Kafka or the Ground of Truth -- Mandelshtam or the Theater of Terror -- 2. Political and Artistic Freedom in a Cross-Cultural Dialogue -- Plurality or Pluralism? Svoboda / Volia / Freedom -- Another Freedom" and the Art of Censorship -- Freedom in Russia versus Democracy in America? Pushkin and Tocqueville -- Two Concepts of Liberty beyond the Cold War: Berlin and Akhmatova -- 3. Liberation with a Birch Rod and the Banality of Terrorism -- Modern / Antimodern: Dostoevsky's Dialogues -- Freer Freedom in Prison -- The One I Love Is the One I Flog: Violence and Enlightenment -- Urban Phantasmagoria: Dostoevsky, Marx, Baudelaire -- Underground Man and Venus in Furs: Resentment, Play, and Moral Masochism -- The Banality of Terrorism between Left and Right -- Religion of the People and Liberation from Freedoms -- 4. Love and Freedom of the Other -- Totalitarianism for Two, or Adventure in World Making? -- "The Seducer's Diary": An Embrace as an Appeal to Arms -- Kierkegaard's Interior Design: Shadowgraphy and Architecture -- Love / Freedom: Either / Or? -- Aestheticized Sacrifice -- Arendt and Heidegger: The Banality of Love or Passionate Thinking? -- The Life of a Jewess from Love to Worldliness

Intro -- Title page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Theoretical Common Places -- Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things -- Archeology of the Common Place -- A Labyrinth without a Monster -- The Mythologist as Traveler -- 1. Mythologies of Everyday Life -- Byt: Daily Grind and Domestic Trash -- Poshlost': Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste -- Meshchanstvo: Middle Class, Middlebrow -- Private Life and Russian Soul -- Truth, Sincerity, Affectation -- Kul'turnost': The Totalitarian Lacquer Box -- Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to "Good-bye, Amerika -- 2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment -- Family Romance and Communal Utopia -- Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet -- Welcome to the Communal Apartment -- Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life -- Interior Decoration -- The Ruins of Utopia -- A Homecoming, 1991 -- 3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania -- History of the Literary Disease -- The Forgotten Classics -- The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police -- Glasnost,' Graphomania, and Popular Culture -- A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac -- 4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism -- The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar -- Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls -- Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or History as Kitsch -- Trashy Jewels of Women Artists -- Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals -- The Obscure Object of Advertisement -- Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place -- Notes -- Index.

In this article, Svetlana Boym proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the everyday practices in the gulag at the crossroads of literature, political theory, and history. Boym places Soviet accounts of the gulag in the comparative context of the twentieth-century reflection on totalitarianism and terror by drawing on Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, judgment, and imagination. There is something inassimilable in Varlam Shalamov's prose: it confronts the experience of extremity but does not offer redemption. It resorts to the mimicry of Soviet discourse and the technologies of the gulag, but only to challenge any coherent conception of Soviet subjectivity, either enthusiastic or defiant. Boym examines Shalamov's uses of clichés, attention to intonation, blemish, mimicry, and estrangement. Instead of performing ideology, Shalamov's Kolyma Tales expose the breaking points of Russian and Soviet cultural myths, giving new insight into reading historical documents and understanding gulag memory in post-Soviet Russia.

Osip Mandel'shtam, "Fransua Villon"Mikhail Bakhtin, "Slovo v romane"The two epigraphs disclose a crucial "genre gap" between Osip Mandel'shtam and Mikhail Bakhtin. If for Mandel'shtam dialogue is essential to lyric, for Bakhtin the dialogical discourse identifies the novel as a genre in opposition to monologic, self-centered and self-sufficient poetic language. In his essays "Fransua Villon" and "O sobesednike," Mandel'shtam discusses different dimensions of dialogue—the dialogue between various historical epochs—modernity and Middle Ages, Ancient Greece and Renaissance, the dialogue between the author and the distant reader, and finally, the dialogue between the poet's diverse selves. The latter is called "lyrical hermaphroditism" and described in its multiple incarnations, including "ogorchennyi i uteshitel', mat' i ditia, sudiia i podsudimyi, sobstvennik i nishchii." Mandel'shtam's "lyrical hermaphroditism" does not signify a Platonic ideal of androgynous wholeness, a reconciliation of two polarities.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: "Snippets of experience" -- 1 Cosmos in the Girls' Washroom -- 2 Children, We've Been Deceived! -- 3 The Secret Life of a Communal Apartment Neighbor -- 4 Tearing Away -- 5 Sasha, Misha, Napoleon and Josephine (circa 1992) -- 6 Replace the Irreplaceable! A Tale of Immigrant Objects -- 7 My Significant Others: Zenita, Susana, Ilanka -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Jews, Theory, and Ends -- chapter 1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance -- chapter 2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation -- chapter 3. The Ends of Ladino -- chapter 4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas -- chapter 5. Jews, in Theory -- chapter 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals -- chapter 7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam -- chapter 8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach -- chapter 9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies -- chapter 10. Against the "Attack on Linking": Rearticulating the "Jewish Intellectual" for Today -- 11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory -- Contributors -- Index