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February 23, 2025. Free shows, free concerts, free movies, free tours, free readings, worshops, lectures, etc.  are New York's best kept secret! Learn all about it and do not miss the unique opportunities that only New York provides: NYC never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.

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Lecture | "To Become a Soviet Fet": Unofficial Poetry and the Russian Nature Lyric Tradition

Lectures, March 31, 2025, 03/31/2025, "To Become a Soviet Fet": Unofficial Poetry and the Russian Nature Lyric Tradition

Monday, March 31, 2025, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

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A key feature of post-WWII Soviet uncensored poetry is its complicated, often ironic relationship to the older lyrical traditions enshrined by official Soviet culture. One such tradition is Romantic nature poetry, with its emphasis on contemplation, rapture, and other forms of expressive subjectivity and authenticity. These forms, however, seem problematic in the Soviet 1960s and 1970s. This talk examines a body of work by poets associated with the Lianozovo group – Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Vsevolod Nekrasov and Yan Satunovsky – that repeatedly evokes Afanasii Fet, the foremost practitioner of 19th-century lyric expressivity and attunement to nature. What motivates this unexpected connection? Fet emerges as shorthand for nature poetry and Naturgefühl more generally, and as a symbol of its irrelevance and unsustainable escapism. The lecture sets Lianozovo’s dialogue with Fet against the backdrop of his reception by earlier poets and contrasts it with references to Alexander Pushkin’s nature lyric in the work of Leonid Aronzon, an unofficial poet of a very different formation, whose allusions, by contrast, seek to re-enchant the contemporary world.

Speaker Luba Golburt is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination(University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and has published articles on Enlightenment and Romanticism, as well as on modern Russian poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. She is currently working on a book-length study of the Russian nature lyric tradition and is co-editing, with Catherine Ciepiela and Stephanie Sandler, the Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry.

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