По, Бодлер, Достоевский: Блеск и нищета национального гения

Andrea Schellino is a philosopher, literary historian, and a specialist in the nineteenth-century French literature; he is currently preparing to defend a dissertation on the subject of Baudelaire and Nietzsche at the Sorbonne. He is the author of monographs on Rimbaud: Paradis de tristesse. L’equivoco cattolico e la religione di Rimbaud (Stampatori, 2010) and Baudelaire et Paul de Molènes (Editions Kimé, 2014). He published the annotated bibliography of Paris Spleen and numerous essay on Chateaubriand, Wagner, Proust, and Сhar. He is currently working on a new annotated edition of Paris Spleen.

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Tatiana Sokolova is a specialist in French literature and comparative studies. She is Professor at the Department of the History of Foreign Literatures at Saint Petersburg State University and author of five monographs including From Romanticism to Symbolism. Essays on the History of French Poetry (St. Petersburg SUP, 2005) and The Facets of Creative Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (Petropolis, 2015) as well as about 120 essays in collections and journals, including: Studi Francesi, Essais sur le discours de l’Europe éclatée, Le Porche, and Bulletin de l’Association des amis d’Alfred de Vigny.

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Virginie Tellier

is an attaché for French at the French Embassy in Moscow; she is a specialist in comparative literature, comparative stylistics and linguistics, literary translation. In 2012, she defended a doctoral thesis entitled Le discours du fou dans le récit romantique européen: Allemagne, France, Russie. Her current research is on the history of comparative studies in Russia.

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Dmitry Tokarev is a literary historian specializing in French-Russian cultural contacts. He is Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the National Research Institute Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. He authored two monographs Worstward Ho: Absurd as Text Category in D. Harms and S. Beckett (NLO, 2002) and “Between India and Hegel”: Boris Poplavsky’s Literary Work in Comparative Perspective (NLO, 2011). He is the editor of “The Inexpressible Expressible”: Ekphrasis and the Problems of Representation of the Visual in the Literary Text (NLO, 2013).

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Alexandra Urakova is a literary historian specializing in Poe’s work and nineteenth-century American Literature. She works as Senior Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of The Poetics of the Body in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (IWL RAS, 2009) and the editor of Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings (Lehigh UP / Rowan and Littlefield, 2013). She has published in NLO, New England Quarterly (NEQ), Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and various collections. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of The Edgar Allan Poe Review

(since 2012) and of Poe Studies (2010 – 2014).

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Jean-Christophe Valtat is a French writer, critic, researcher and works as Professor at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France. He is the author of books on contemporary European fiction (Proust, James, the myths of avant-garde). His two monographs are on the poetics of contemporary European fiction: Premières Leçons sur L’Éducation sentimentale, un roman d’apprentissage (PUF, collection Major Bac, 1996) and Culture et figures de la relativité (Champion, 2004). He co-edited the following collections: Les Mythes des Avant-gardes (with Véronique Léonard, PUBP, 2003) and Modernités du suranné (with Valéry Hugotte, PUPB, 2006).