Susanne Fusso talk on "Dostoevsky's Literary Partnership with Editor Mikhail Katkov"
On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the Carmel Institute continued its year-long series of book talks in honor of the bicentennial of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's birth in 1821. Our third speaker was Dr. Susanne Fusso,ÌýMarcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Wesleyan University discussing her 2017 book,ÌýEditing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian NovelÌý(NIU Press, 2017).Ìý
Dr. Fusso is a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian prose, especially Gogol and Dostoevsky. She is the author ofÌýDesigning Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in GogolÌý(Stanford University Press, 1993) andÌýDiscovering Sexuality in DostoevskyÌý(Northwestern University Press, 2006). Her most recent book isÌýÌýHer most recent translations are of Sergey Gandlevsky's autobiographical novelÌýTrepanation of the SkullÌý(NIU Press, 2014), his novelÌýIllegibleÌý(NIU Press, 2019), and the short stories of Nikolai Gogol,ÌýThe Nose and OtherÌýStoriesÌý(Columbia University Press, 2020). She has also published edited volumes on Gogol, Karolina Pavlova, and Russian writers' views of America, and a translation of the memoirs and hunting stories of Prince Vladimir Sergeevich Trubetskoi.