Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, teaches Russian literature at UT-Austin. He has published extensively on North American and Russian literature and culture, including a book on Thomas Pynchon (Minsk, 2001).

"The topic behind Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature is simply enormous, bringing together Silver Age and émigré medical, elite, and religious discourses on the body, sexuality, sex, and physicality. Lalo’s literary study, drawn from Foucault, has its victories. It certainly proves the existence of a native Russian point of view on these topics and absolutely confirms the case for an interdisciplinary approach to this period. The book as well offers distinctly persuasive explanations for Russian differences from the West." - Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, in: East Central Europe issue 40.3 (2013) [DOI: 10.1163/18763308-04003010]

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques1. Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Dis-course of Silence2. Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov3. Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age4. Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing5. Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel6. Joseph Brodsky’s Libertinage: Sexual and Erotic Themes in his PoetryConclusion: Russia’s “Threshold of Modernity” and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Bio-powerBibliographyIndex

Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, teaches Russian literature at UT-Austin. He has published extensively on North American and Russian literature and culture, including a book on Thomas Pynchon (Minsk, 2001).

"The topic behind Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature is simply enormous, bringing together Silver Age and émigré medical, elite, and religious discourses on the body, sexuality, sex, and physicality. Lalo’s literary study, drawn from Foucault, has its victories. It certainly proves the existence of a native Russian point of view on these topics and absolutely confirms the case for an interdisciplinary approach to this period. The book as well offers distinctly persuasive explanations for Russian differences from the West." - Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, in: East Central Europe issue 40.3 (2013) [DOI: 10.1163/18763308-04003010]

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques1. Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Dis-course of Silence2. Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov3. Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age4. Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing5. Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel6. Joseph Brodsky’s Libertinage: Sexual and Erotic Themes in his PoetryConclusion: Russia’s “Threshold of Modernity” and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Bio-powerBibliographyIndex

Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, teaches Russian literature at UT-Austin. He has published extensively on North American and Russian literature and culture, including a book on Thomas Pynchon (Minsk, 2001).

"The topic behind Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature is simply enormous, bringing together Silver Age and émigré medical, elite, and religious discourses on the body, sexuality, sex, and physicality. Lalo’s literary study, drawn from Foucault, has its victories. It certainly proves the existence of a native Russian point of view on these topics and absolutely confirms the case for an interdisciplinary approach to this period. The book as well offers distinctly persuasive explanations for Russian differences from the West." - Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, in: East Central Europe issue 40.3 (2013) [DOI: 10.1163/18763308-04003010]

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques1. Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Dis-course of Silence2. Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov3. Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age4. Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing5. Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel6. Joseph Brodsky’s Libertinage: Sexual and Erotic Themes in his PoetryConclusion: Russia’s “Threshold of Modernity” and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Bio-powerBibliographyIndex